Recipe is one unique style of writings that has existed for a long time. Recipe does have big frame but its style varies by the author. One important part in recipe is an introduction. Introduction is how every recipe of one certain food becomes special. There are many different versions by different authors of one same food and that is possible because each story and background of that food depends on author’s own experience. That is how others adapt the existing recipe and put in their own stories and their own cooking tips to make it their own recipe. One interesting introduction is Brown Good and Cheap recipes. Most introductions starts with food’s history or authors experience with it but this book talks briefly about the taste and its look and sounds like the food is introducing itself. It sounded to be more tasteful and fun to make. Another thing that is important in recipe is marking the ingredients. This is also crucial because it tells or warns person who is allergic to certain ingredient. Putting exact amount or ratio of ingredient leads to perfect food. Direction is the next important step in recipe. Some recipes have pictures included or Internet recipes can put some video clips to help understand each step. Especially in baking, baking needs good technics in order to success and well-explained directions will help.

The purpose of writing recipe is basically to help and inform readers to cook but every author’s goals are different. In Brown Good and Cheap, author’s target is those who wants to cook with low money but want to have good quality of foods. One of the recipe I researched before also helps to make good Korean food with small money. It also has historical background, where during war where people had nothing to eat and cook, just put everything they had and mixed together.(http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/kimchi-bokkeumbap) That is the origin and after several years someone wrote it down as a recipe and now it has became one of Korea’s most favourite food and still many different recipes of Kimchi-bokkeumbap is coming out. There is no same recipe in the world, unless one copies exactly same from others. Every recipe has its own story and its own style. The purpose or target readers will be different even the final food is similar. That is one characteristic of recipe that differs from other writings.