"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 23:59:10 +0100, Victor Sack wrote:
>>
>> > Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
>> >
>> >> OK, Sweetpea, how much was donated to Second Harvest from sales of the
>> >> 2002 rfc recipe book?
>> >
>> > $5470
>> >
>> > Bubba Vic
>>
>> holy shit!
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> holy shit for sure! We were all stunned and thrilled by the amount,
> Blake. I think, going into it, most of us expected that the donation
> would be a few (several?) hundred dollars or maybe $1-2K. I don't think
> any of us dreamed of $5K. There was great joy in Mudville when Victor
> or Nancy or whomever made the announcement of the total.
>
> There was an *enormous* amount of work that went into the project
> *after* the recipes were submitted and, in fact, *after* the first proof
> copy was made. It turned out pretty darned good for what it is. Had
> the book been assembled exactly as the recipes had been submitted, it
> would have been a POS not worth the paper it was printed on. It would
> have been an embarrassment to the group. Victor *was* the driving
> force, IMNSHO, who made sure that a high quality product was delivered
> in a timely fashion. (Sorry to embarrass you, Bubba Vic, but it's
> true.) I can think of only a couple people currently posting who could,
> in my opinion, do the same in the same way (he stuck to the business at
> hand).
>
> Want to edit a cookbook, Blake? Fortunately, you have enough hair to
> pull out that there's still be some left when the job was done. "-)
> --
> -Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
> http://web.me.com/barbschaller


It happens to be a damn good book as well as a little funny Alan-Lutefisk.

Almost all of the recipes are winners and some are extra special winners.

Dimitri