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This article is from the Cooking
and Conversions FAQ, by with numerous contributions by Victor
Sack cooking.faq@mac.com others.
6.1 Origins of rec.food.cooking
(thank you to Max Hauser)
rec.food.cooking began as net.cooks, launched by friend and fellow food
fanatic Steve Upstill in Berkeley in January 1982 with a posting on
pragmatic pasta sauces, something Steve was then often cooking,
including at my place. We were all cranking out a lot of fresh ribbon
pasta with Atlas 150 (150mm) roller/cutter machines and we needed things
to do with it. net.cooks became rec.food.cooking in the general Great
Renaming (late 1986). Current Google archives show Steve's original
29-Jan-82 posting, and also his 31-Jan-82 net.general announcement of
net.cooks, "All about food, cooking, cookbooks, recipes and other
alimentary effluvia." That was the "charter" of this newsgroup.
(Discussions by the way using the specific language of newsgroup
"charter" on net.cooks or rec.food.cooking don't appear until five years
later in 1987, an exchange between Terry Sterkel, me, and Spafford,
referring anyway to a different newsgroup.) Posted statistics also
showed that net.cooks became popular immediately, one of the most
popular newsgroups at the time. After the 1986 renaming, a Gene
Spafford active-newsgroups list included rec.food.cooking with summary
"Food, cooking, cookbooks, and recipes." Steve Upstill continued to
contribute occasionally, and also to work on recipe-formatting software.
I recall him commercializing a typesetting macro package ("-MU"), and
recipe software for Mac platforms.
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