Subject: Are Recipes Computable?
From: "William J. Rapaport" <rapaport@buffalo.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:15:07 -0500 (EST)

In connection with both Cleland's paper
(which argues that recipes are not Turing-computable)
and Preston's chapter
(which strongly suggests that they are),
you might find the following news item of interest:

Daly, Ian (2010), "Just Like Mombot Used to Make:
Fear not, humans, these robots are here to be our friends.
To prove it, they serve you food",
NY Times, Dining section (24 February): D1, D5.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/24/dining/24robots.html