On Mon, 04 May 2009 16:38:08 -0500 in rec.food.cooking,
wrote,
>btw if you're not a recipe gatherer, what are you doing here seems
>like a good question... if it was just for chefs it would be called
>chef.food.cooking and not rec.food.cooking.

If it was just for recipes it would be called rec.food.recipes
.... and what do you know, it is! If you just want to post recipes
without inviting full discussion of them, go there.