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::Hey, did we ever decide on a workgroup for food and recipes? As I understand, [[CZ:Food Science Workgroup|food science]] is gone. I'd do subpages if I knew the group to use. As it is, I'll probably do a free-standing related articles subpage. | ::Hey, did we ever decide on a workgroup for food and recipes? As I understand, [[CZ:Food Science Workgroup|food science]] is gone. I'd do subpages if I knew the group to use. As it is, I'll probably do a free-standing related articles subpage. | ||
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:::Well, you learn something new every day, I guess. Outside of Asian food restaurants, nobody I knew ever seemed to use "dumpling" to mean anything other than chicken and dumplings and apple dumplings. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 16:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 11:25, 9 December 2008
Definition please
The article should start with a simple, pithy definition. Do all boiled pasta count as dumplings? That's not how I learned to use the word "dumpling." --Larry Sanger 14:50, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Pithy? "I luff you, my sveet little dumpling?"
- Yes, at least to a cook, all boiled pasta meet the culinary definition of dumpling. I recognize that, say, spaghetti might not seem a dumpling, but it really does meet the characteristics of one dumpling type: relatively bland absorber of the cooking liquid or sauce Howard C. Berkowitz 14:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
- Hey, did we ever decide on a workgroup for food and recipes? As I understand, food science is gone. I'd do subpages if I knew the group to use. As it is, I'll probably do a free-standing related articles subpage.
- Who wrote the above? Please sign all your comments!
- Well, you learn something new every day, I guess. Outside of Asian food restaurants, nobody I knew ever seemed to use "dumpling" to mean anything other than chicken and dumplings and apple dumplings. --Larry Sanger 16:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC)