An idea to discuss (recipes/rpca emergency fund)

I love it when a troll posts here. It means I get to try all kinds of
new food ideas from all over the world :-) But all the time I'm
thinking, with all this culinary talent we have, and the goodness of
rpca, we should get it all together in one place.

So I'm thinking like this:
What would people think of the idea of all of us (those who wish to, of
course) submitting our favourite tried and tested recipes, and they
become the very first Catslaves/rpca cookbook?

I am willing to put them all together in a nice book form - I have the
suitable software to do this, and this would then be available for
everyone here to download in PDF format, i.e. free, except for the price
of your ISP connection. I'm suggesting this as it's so much easier than
trying to organise printing and mailing, and PDFs can be read by anyone
on PC or Mac, using free Acrobat Reader software (installed on most
machines by default). You can then print it out on your printer if you
want.

We could organise it by individuals, by individual's cats, by
geographical location, or by nationality of the food. It would be even
nicer if we could include something personal to the readers of rpca, I'm
thinking of photos of our cats in particular, or photos perhaps of where
we live - houses, gardens, countryside, cityscapes, local features, etc
etc. Maybe even pics of the food in question!

Not only would this be a nice thing in itself, but I thought it would be
also nice if at the same time people made a donation, of any size at
all, however small, to our emergency fund, whoever is in charge of that
at the moment.

There are issues of copyright to consider, especially if the recipes
come from retail books, and of course if they are people's own recipes
they will be clearly marked as such, but I *think* we'd be OK with
limited distribution to ourselves in a not-for-profit sense?

What do you all think? Would people like this and be willing to send
enough recipes to make it worthwhile? Anything, from sumptious, via
everyday, seasonal and just plain indulgent to your favourite comfort
food, and of course including drinks! I think we could get a great book
going here....

Deb.
(hungry)

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