Recipe diagramming
Michael Chu has found a neat way to summarise his recipes, so you can see at glance when you should be doing what – just bung the ingredients into a simplified Nassi-Shneiderman Diagram.
I used NS-diagrams a lot back in the 1980’s to design well-structured programs – there’s no possibility to jump in and out of the middle of loops if you use NS diagrams – and they are very easy to understand. Here is a simple example of processing an order, for example:
September 9th, 2006 at 11:09:46
[...] If you didn’t like recipes in structure diagram format, you could take a look at Elise Bauer’s whole food Simply Recipes instead. Interesting recipes and very few ingredients that come out of tins or packets – yum! [...]