The meeting was held in 12th floor TV lounge on the 24th of January and was attended by:
Azeema, Imon, Jacinta Mendonca, Shakeel Makarani, Sharima Abbas, Riana Helen Aanesia, Nezia Azmi, Catherine Hardie, Mei Li Siaw, Huy Pham, and Asheshwor Shrestha
The agenda of the meeting was to discuss strategies to improve our recipe collection process and setting a new timeline for collecting recipes, editing and publication.
The meeting began with a brief status of the recipes. We have collected 38 recipes so far, which is much lower than our intended target of at least 100 recipes. Some members asked the need for sticking to this number. Imon clarified this by noting that the cookbook from 2006 had more than 200 recipes and a book with less than 100 pages (and hence 100 recipes) would look too thin in comparison. After some discussion, it was decided that each of the committee members will try to collect 5 recipes representing their country/region. After this second round of recipe collection, if we are still short, we can add essays related to festivals and celebrations from our respective countries/cultures. The members also suggested including more pictures of different festivals and potlucks in the resident halls. It was decided that we can include black and white pictures too if cost of 4 color printing is not feasible for all the selected images!!!
In terms of time line the committee agreed to extend the date for printing to June and focus on the Alumni conference in early July for sales!!
The following decisions were made:
1) Each of the committee member will take responsibility of one country and try to collect 5 recipes. Most important is to focus on the countries which are missing (please see the 2nd email which includes the cookbook database). At the moment, glaringly absent region is the PACIFIC!! Even though there are many students from several countries of the pacific in our community but we have not received any recipe from them and we also do not have any committee member from that region. Some of the committee members said that they will contact students from Pacific for recipes.
2) The new time line:
Recipe collection: till the middle of February
Editing: From February to April
Composing: April to May
Printing: June
Sale: July (Alumni conference and EWC bookshop)
3) Committee members will try to take pictures of food and cooking mostly during potlucks in and around the Hales and EWC.
