Tasty! - Andy Bakun from email

? - Dan Freeman

Anything specific you want to know, Dan? - Andy Bakun

ummm ... Animal, mineral, or vegetable ? - Dan Freeman

Looks like human. - Jon Ursenbach

That was on the last episode of Fringe - Art Witczak from iPhone

It is for human consumption, that's for sure. Animal (beef) in the foreground, with vegetable underneath. And salt was added, so mineral also. - Andy Bakun

You know, a Midnight Roast party would be cool. Put it on about 3pm, then people come over and hangout, maybe play some poker, and then the evening ends with a roast. - Andy Bakun

nice. Best enjoyed w/ beer goggles - I was looking at it from an altogether different angle through a pareidoliac lens ... Now I see it looks quite delicious! Feel like posting the recipe? (Bonus points if written in functional rather than imperative form - cf http://friendfeed.com/paul...) - Dan Freeman

Here's a bastardization of like four languages, it's truly hard to do without side effects or some kind of global state (the slow cooker at least), since side effects are pretty much the whole point of cooking; I think you'll get the idea. def slow-cooker = stack() ; def cut(item) = { item.apply(knife) } ; def add-to-pot(item) = { slow-cooker.push(item) } ; [ [potatoes carrots celery onions].map(cut) roast salt pepper beef-bullion ].reduce(add-to-pot) ; [ (slow-cooker.apply(heat) * (x hours)) for 5 < x < 8 ] ; [ n/4 for person in range(4) ] - Andy Bakun

well done - thanks! Actually seems easier to follow in this form than many "ingredients first, crucial details last" recipes. And ... reminds me (just a bit) of the zen monk ordering a hot dog: "make me one with everything" .... - Dan Freeman

Well, the true advantage would having a cookbook that could query the recipes it contains, looking for things with certain ingredients that feed x number of people and take x amount of time. Is functional the best thing for that? - Andy Bakun

makes sense in more general SCMS-type problem solving. So, yeah. I think maybe a particularly good fit for cooking - makes it easier to both write and read recipes (and as for proving mathematical certainty - well, the proof is in the pudding!) - Dan Freeman

noticed what might be an interesting natural example of (somewhat) functional style: http://identi.ca/group/140yum "Pulled pork tacos: 1-2lb pork roast, 16oz jar salsa 2t chilipowder 2t cumin. Crockpot 6 hrs. Remove meat, shred, serv w/salsa" - Dan Freeman