The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all of the molecules that are, at this moment, you.
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.
A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.