Continuing the Recipe Column

by Gary Wunder

In a recent issue I asked readers to tell me whether or not you thought the recipe column we have run since 1971 was still of value. The email and telephone calls I have received are overwhelmingly in support of our keeping the column. Whether the Monitor survey echoes this we will see, and please do take the survey. The question I most frequently get is why we would consider doing away with the column.

If readers of the Braille Monitor want the column, we will keep it. The problem is that we continue to have difficulty getting state affiliates to submit. I try to contact each affiliate that will be asked at least six months out to tell them where they are in the flow of states. I then offer a warning about two months out. If I haven’t heard anything by the time we are starting to edit the articles, I used telephone calls. Sometimes I am told that pleas for recipes go unanswered. Sometimes I receive no response at all.

If you want the recipe column to continue, please contribute when asked by your state president. If you don’t see your state represented in the alphabetical list of recipes, one state per month, ask why not, and help your state president assemble them. If this is a tradition worth keeping, let’s do it right and with the pride that is represented in everything we do.

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