Creating TCS Cookbook

Originally posted by Momofmany
Cool - you're on. Word comes with the general Microsoft Office products - if you have one of them, you probably have them all.

Thanks!!!

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When my brother initially set this computer up for my Dad, he did install some of the MS Office products, but I knew that he had not included Word in the installation, 'cuz he knew Dad would never need a word processor. He, then, of course, took all the installation disks away with him, back to the other end of the country. Dad used the computer for a while, under duress, and then abandoned it. I seem to have inherited it. (Life is tough all over, eh?)

However, I was pretty sure I could borrow the office copy, if I spoke nicely . So...

MSWord (and all its confreres) duly acquired, installed and ready to go. Fire away!

Sorry to have raised a question that had already been covered. I did read through the thread first(Ok, skimmed it) and missed it.

No problem- the thread is pretty long, skimmed it myself as a matter of fact. Put the intro up here so if I missed someone they could yell at me! NO one is yelling yet-

Personlly spending all my free time compiling and editing the recipes. I haven't had a chance to read thru all the ideas in this thread, but will do so once I have a first draft out to rapunzel to read.

Hissy - I'd like to clip out the recipes for cats and send them to you for your comments. The recipes by themselves don't really explain why you would use them or how. Could you do this? I would guess that they would be broken into 3 sections: 1) fun treats for your cats, 2) orphaned kittens, 3) recipes for health impaired cats.

Just an idea, but what about a for cat recipe section for stuff that BOTH of you can eat? I know those multi-species snacks are out there...anyway...just an idea.

One other thing we should include in the Kitty section are foods that cats should not be allowed to eat. I don't know all of them, otherwise I would write it up. But stuff like tuna on a regular basis, chocolate, onion powder, etc. (And why cats shouldn't eat it too!)

Heidi-Thats a great idea! I also have no problem with my username and first name being used(it will be in my Bio anyhow)

When do you need the Bios in by?

Go ahead Mom and send them to me- I will get to them as soon as I can

The cookbook is up to about 104 pages. Haven't started editing yet, as just received 45 new recipes via e-mail and spent the afternoon merging them into the book. I still have to clip the latest from the family recipe thread (tomorrow morning).

Ta-ta for the night - going to have some fun at a party tonight. See y'all tomorrow.

Originally posted by lotsofkids
I don't mean to be a party pooper, but it might be a good idea to check that these recipes are originals. Would be awful for someone to get in trouble for copyright infringement...Of course it wouldn't take much of a change from the original recipe to avoid that...just a thought.

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Well, since I brought up this question too, I thought I'd check it out. It seems recipes are not covered by copyright. Now, if a recipe had pictures and literary descriptions, these are covered by copyright-but not the measurements and directions. So, if I understand it correctly, recipes can be shared, as long as the actual directions are not copied word-for-word. Names of recipes aren't covered either. I got the info from this website:
http://www.cbbqa.com/notes/CopyrightLaw.html

Neato! Kind of puzzling though honestly, I'm not complaining by any means but it seems like everything else is copyrighted these days.

Thanks for checking into that Christy! While I didn't know the actual law, I knew it couldn't be too stringent since every church and school it seems has put out a cookbook.

I do have a question, something that has come up when I was talking with some friends from the site (outside of the site ). How are we incorporating the Bios? Who all is being contacted? Is it everyone who has ever contributed a recipe in the threads? The reason I ask is that we really don't want to have the bios be half the space of the cookbook, especially doing it online. I guess my original thought was to only have bios for people who had contributed to the most recent thread, which I never verbalized.

Fluffy's Mom - how are you handling this? Any other thoughts on how we should present this?

Throwing my idea in the center:

Instead of bios, how about just a picture of one cat with a short inscription saying "Heidi's Kitchen Helper is Trent" That's it no muss no fuss. To do the tribute to a pet passed perhaps a rainbow over the top edge of the picture to symbolize Rainbow Bridge? Personally, when I buy a cookbook, I want recipes not bios-

Bios..Ackkkkkkk!!! Well i'm still waiting on alot of people. I could ask for pics if that what everyone wants. I'll collect them but what if people (like some on here do) have 12 cats?Whatever you decide is fine but just be sure before i send out emails lol

First of all contact the people and let them know about the existence of the cookbook. Give them a timeline to respond, and tell them that if you don't hear from them in say 10 days the recipe will be deleted.

I would rather than see bios in this cookbook, just have the name of the submitter on the page of the recipe. No one outside of this board is going to care about who we are, they just want the recipes. Ideally, we should make arrangements to have these books printed up, but again, you are looking at more time and more cost- So if it is online, then providing the url to this board so people will come here, would be the best IMO

So then do we want to ask for a pic too Hissy?

I like your idea Hissy, I personally don't like the idea of telling the world my bio. I am sure Peedoodle would love his picture in a book! But I would rather try and have them both in one picture instead of just one.

Ok how's this:

Hi,
As you may or may not know TCS is putting together a online recipe book with all proceeds going to charity.At some point you posted a recipe on the forums and we'd like to use your recipe(s). We are asking those in the book to submit a picture of one og your cats with your name and the pets name above it. Please submit these to [email protected] within 10 days or your recipe will not be used.
Thanks Danielle

How about something less clinical?

In the Spirit of Holiday Giving, The community of TheCatSite.com is compiling a collection of recipes that will be available online around the holidays. At one time, you submitted a recipe on the board. We would like your permission to include this in our cookbook. The proceeds will all go to an Animal Charity. If this is agreeable with you, please respond. If I do not hear from you in 10 days from this date: ________ I will assume you are not interested and your recipe will be deleted from this project.

If you would like to be included, and would like one photo of your cat in this book, please send that to me in jpg format. Also if you have other recipes you think will bring added flavor to this project please send them along with the picture. Please include your board name and the name of your cat if you wish to participate.

Thank you-

Honestly, I am having 2nd thoughts about including all of these bios. How much will people outside of TCS really care? How about a picture of the recipe contributor's cat? Maybe, and I may really overstepping my bounds here, somebody like kimward might be willing to Photoshop the pictures to have each cat wearing a little chef's hat.

Secondly, as I understand it, recipes posted on the site have been searched out for inclusion. To the best of my memory, the recipe I posted was from a previously published source. I would feel more comfortable contributing an original recipe.