Below is the first page of the cookbook;

Scanned with ORS from HP.

Lighty proofed.

Dimitri

Welcome to the first rec.food.cooking Cook.Book!

What is rec.food.cooking, you might ask? Technically, it is a Usenet
newsgroup devoted to discussion of anything related to food and cooking. In
reality, it is a diverse, world-wide community of friends (and enemies and
"passers-by"!) who share daily their food likes and dislikes, their
knowledge and ignorance, their joys and sorrows, their experience and lack
thereof, their successes and failures -- and their recipes!

Dozens of people post their recipes to the newsgroup every day and many
thousands of people read them. The posts are archived and can be easily
found on the Internet. Why, then, this Cook. Book? The reasons are
threefold. We wanted to collect some of our favourite recipes in a
convenient and familiar book form. We wanted to provide ourselves with a
tangible sign of belonging to our select little circle (Hal). And we also
wanted to collect some money in order to help the victims of the 11 th
September, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and
Pennsylvania.

Many people contributed to this project with their opinions, advice and
suggestions. It was a group effort. Those particularly involved we

Original idea: Damsel-in-dis-Dress

Recipe collecting: Damsel-in-dis-Dress, Michael Lonergan (Dog 3) Recipe
formatting: Damsel-in-dis-Dress, Amanda Haggerty (Hag), Victor Sack

Measurement conversions: Anne Charlet, Rhonda Anderson, Ariane Jenkins,
Victor Sack

Proofreading: Jean B., Amanda Haggerty (Hag), Nancy Young, Pat Meadows,
Martha Hughes, Kim Malo, Vickie Canfield (Ladyvmh2000), Phil(NM), PJ
Newland, maxine in ri, Chris Neidecker

Cook.Book logo design (based on the one for the r.f.c. T-shirt by lain
Liddell): Kat, Jim Souter, Victor Sack

Cook.Book Web order site: Ashbury

Treasurer: Nancy Young

Shipping volunteers: Margaret Suran, Barb Schaller, Nancy Young, Steve
Greenfield (The Ranger), Jamie Utter, Jack Eddington, Cuchulain Libby, Koko,
Karen Rubarth (Greykits)

General organising and volunteer coordination: Victor Sack

The volunteers named above live in Australia, France, Germany, Okinawa, and
the United States of America. They, along with the many contributors of the
recipes here, are witness to the international participation that made the
Cook.Book dream a reality. Who said we can't get along with each other?

Three kind persons donated cash - a total of $175 - to the Cook.Book
project.