Mission & Purpose

Our goal is to create an extensive database of recipes from a wide variety of cultures. This wiki’s purpose is to share recipes and good cooking information with classmates, friends, and family. Visitors to the wiki can submit their own recipes using the web form provided and access those that have already been added. Additionally, visitors can use this wiki as a portal to other healthful websites around the web…from nutritional information for your favorite restaurant to how to convert metric measurements to US measurements and back, how to calculate your daily caloric intake to finding other recipe databases, everyone should be able to find something of use at our goodcooking Wiki! We will continue adding recipes we enjoy, and we hope to receive recipe submissions and suggestions from guests.

 

 

Why this wiki was created

 

The Good Cooking wiki is a class project for Information Science 587 and was created as a compilation of each member’s favorite recipes, family recipes, those submitted by friends and other recipes from cookbooks, magazines and other publications. The recipes cover various regions of the United States in addition to other cultures around the world. See the project description for more information.

 

 

 

About Us

Monica Colon-Aguirre

Monica is currently a graduate student in the School of Information Science at the University of Tennessee. Native to Puerto Rico, Monica enjoys cooking (and eating) a variety of dishes, especially desserts and sweets.  She encourages you to try her exotic recipes that include bold exotic ingredients like guavas and plantains.

 

 

 

 

 

Amy Hoffman

Amy is currently a graduate student in the School of Information Science at the University of Tennessee.  She earned her B.A. in English from Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, which is 30 miles from the small town of New Castle where she grew up.  She loves making desserts, such as Mini Cheesecakes for her fiance, but is trying to broaden her cooking horizons.

 

 

 

 

Connie Steigenga

Connie serves as the daytime supervisor for the Music Library. She holds a Baccalaureate of Music Education from The University of Southern Mississippi, a Master of Music in Music Education from the University of Tennessee, and is currently a graduate student in the School of Information Science at the University of Tennessee. As a native of New Orleans, Connie brings a variety of spicy cajun dishes as well as others collected along the way. She enjoys cooking healthy dishes from Broiled Salmon with Yogurt Dill Sauce to Tomato Delights.

 

 

 

Casey Williams

Casey is currently a graduate student in the School of Information Science at the University of Tennessee. She earned a B.A. in History from Rhodes College and a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Christian Brothers University. She spent five years teaching basic Japanese and history at Craigmont High School in Memphis, TN. Most of Casey's recipes come from her mother and friends. Some of her favorite dishes are Crockpot Cantonese Pork, Fudge, and  Ritz Cracker Chicken.

 

 

 

Laura Young

Laura is currently a graduate student in the School of Information Science at the University of Tennessee. She earned a B.A. and M.A. in English from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.  As a vegetarian, Laura brings such wonderful dishes as Springtime Quiche and Latkes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recipe Selection

 

The recipes included are those from various nationalities and our favorite family recipes.  When recipes are submitted by others their names and locations are listed, unless they wish to remain anonymous. If the recipe was taken from a magazine, cookbook, other printed or online source a Chicago style citation appears below the recipe. There is a simple web submission form for the wiki, which allows users to submit their own recipes. The submission is e-mailed to the wiki editor who then decides if the recipe will be added. Simple instructions appear above the form so that the submitter knows what is required. If a recipe has been added to the wiki, the submitter will receive an e-mail reply letting them know the link to the recipe(s) and thanking them for their submission.

 

Each recipe is tagged according to the main ingredients and  type of recipe. A complete alphabetical list of tags can be viewed at the tags page.

 

 

 

 

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