rec.food.cooking
Food, cooking, cookbooks, and recipes.
One of the busier rec.* groups: technique questions, ingredient substitution, equipment argument and recipe exchange, carried on by home cooks and professionals together across two decades.
Recipe groups were among Usenet’s most practically useful rooms, and among the first whose content the web absorbed wholesale. The group remains in the Usenet namespace today.
Reading rec.food.cooking today
- Historical archive: Google Groups — rec.food.cooking (coverage varies by group and era).
- Open in a newsreader:
news:rec.food.cooking— the original site offered exactly this link, and it still works if your system has a newsreader registered for thenews:scheme. - Live access: point an NNTP newsreader at a modern server — see accessing Usenet today.
- The original news2mail e-mail subscription service ended in the mid-2000s and no longer operates.