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Title:How to Make them Goodies
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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4034.0. "Old Cooking Magazines!" by --UnknownUser-- () Tue Mar 07 1995 11:49

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4034.1ME TOO!MAIL1::ORTIZGTue Mar 07 1995 13:167
    I have the same problem!  I have loads of old cooking magazines,
    Gourmet, Food&Wine, Bon Apetit, etc. that date back to the early 70's. 
    Like you in HLO, I'm hard pressed to throw them away- I'm willing to
    bring them into the NYO (New York City) facility if anyone is
    interested.  Contact me - dtn 352-2867 - if you're interested.
    
    
4034.2DFSAXP::JPTelling tales of Parrotheads and PartiesTue Mar 07 1995 13:374
Call your local library.  The one in our town takes donations of old magazines
and books in good condition, and has a "yard sale" a few times a year to help
support the library.

4034.3SWAM2::SMITH_MATue Mar 07 1995 19:132
    Or donate them to a local pre-school or kindergarten who would use them 
    with the kids to make collages, etc.   
4034.4always need new recipes...APLVEW::DEBRIAEThu Mar 09 1995 15:589
    
  I would love to accept old gourmet cooking magazines like Gourmet, Bon
  Appetit, Cooking Light, Food & Wine et al if anyone wants to get rid of
  them. I'm not sure about Family Circle (never read one).

  I live by LKG and I work in HLO and PKO.  Let me know how I can pick them
  up...
    
  -Erik
4034.5SOLVIT::ALLEN_Ron the pointThu Mar 09 1995 22:5315
        this got me thinking.....
    I'm trying to set up scanning and OCR, etc.  If I had it done I would
    scan in the good recipes from old magazines, OCR them and set up a
    data base so they could be retrieved by a number of ways.  Having the
    image too would allow me to print out the article in its original form. 
    I could then print a collection of recipes and articles to create a
    simple to find collection on a subject,  Storage would be easier and I
    could even go in and make on line modifications to the recipe as it
    suited me.

    that would be better than having the million recipes on a CD that I
    currently have.
    
    a daydream, about on par with having one excellent meal a day.  I'd
    settle for one a week.