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People from all over the world read rec.food.cooking. If mere words are not sufficient to explain a food not from your region, if you want to try local items from other parts of the world, then read on... After a successful large-scale exchange orchestrated earlier this year by David Wilkinson in the UK, it has been suggested that ongoing requests for food exchange partners be posted as follows : * EXCHANGE should be the first word in the Subject: line. This allows people who aren't interested to use whatever facilities their newsreader allows to avoid posts on this subject. * Posts should indicate what you have and what you want. For example "I have Cherry Ripe bars, does anyone want to swap for Peanut Butter M&Ms" or "I'm from France and I'd like to swap regional foods with someone from the USA" (perhaps followed by a representative list of regional foods).

If you want to swap food with someone, either post your own request or reply to somebody else's. OR try to pick up on the occasional postings people make offering to do one round of a large scale orchestration. And now, some hints : * Overseas postage can get VERY expensive, VERY fast. You will probably want to send all but the very tiniest of packages by surface mail. This takes weeks and weeks and so the perishability of the food items you send will need to be taken into account. * Some countries have stringent import restrictions.

Fresh foods and anything that might harbour insects, for example, are not likely to get into some countries, also viable seeds are not welcomed in countries such as New Zealand. * Some ideas on packaging anything that is not remarkably sturdy - use a rigid outer box of some sort - wrap anything containing liquid in its own plastic bag, disasters happen - if there are heavy things packed with fragile things, remember to anchor them (maybe with tape) - use some sort of packing material (I use newspaper) to cushion the effect of any bumps ~ pick the smallest box that your things will fit into - coffee canisters work well to send cookies in - toilet paper tubes are good space fillers, you can also put small things inside them * Postage really is a killer. I can't emphasise this one enough * Good and Bad Travellers (please contribute!): - Good Nut Breads Spices Nuts Anything Dried - Bad Glass (usually) - heavy (= expensive) and breakable - with careful packing it's ok Oily Things. Wrap these well, or else they will weaken their part of the box ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 9 Archives [If you are archiving recipes from rec.food.cooking, please tell me about it so I can put it here] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 9⅒ Archives from rec.food.recipes rec.food.recipes is being archived at several FTP sites : Currently updated sites: * in /pub/rec.food.recipes (login as `anonymous') maintainer : Stephanie da Silva (arielle@...) This is the official rec.food.recipes archive. * Some older (often not currently being updated) archive sites: * alt.gourmand files *

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