Project News

• There are currently 5,612 articles attributed to the project, an increase of 399 over the last two months.

• There are currently 2,812 stubs attributed to the project, it would be great to see a large dent taken out of this pile. Help us out here if you can.

• Sixteen articles are at FA level and twenty are GA level articles, with an increase of one at FA status and an increase of four at GA status. We also have an entrant into the A category.

• The project would also like to continue an article improvement drive attempt.

• The Food Portal has been switched to a random portal version in order to keep the topics changing on a regular basis.

• The Wine Portal which is associated with this project has also been changed to a random portal version, this portal was also updated as a Featured Portal a couple months ago.

• There is a lot of work for this Wikiproject. Go to WikiProject Food and drink/Tasks to find out how to help.

• Please continue to help with the Destubbification Drive.

• There are currently two merge proposal listed for the project. Please help by going to the pages and giving your opinion on these merge proposals.

Merge Cooker with Cook stove - Discuss here

Merge 7-Bone Steak‎ (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) into
7-Bone Roast (  | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) - Discuss here

• Articles can be "tagged" currently by placing {{ WikiProject Food and drink}} in an article's talk page. Please help out with accessing articles for the project once they are tagged as well. This is a tedious job for the few people who are doing it right now. Listed here are other tags you can use for identifying articles as well as yourself as a member of the project and some other useful items as well.

Current members of this task force include:
-- Christopher Tanner, CCC 18:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC) reply
-- Jeremy Brown 1 July 2007
-- GrooveDog ( talk) ( Review) 17:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC) reply
-- Applejaxs 1 October 2007
-- Jacksinterweb 15 December 2007
-- Green caterpillar ( talk) 15:48, 27 December 2007 (UTC) reply

• Please welcome these new members who have joined in the month of February and March, we are now up to sixty-nine members.

1. Shlishke ( talk · contribs · count) - Spanish, French, Hungarian cooking; food writing
2. Anton Ego ( talk · contribs · count) - I like food, but only fine ones.
3. Dentren ( talk · contribs · count) - Writes about South American cuisine
4. Octane ( talk · contribs · count) - Culinary student (sort of on hiatus atm)
5. ichbinjenny ( talk · contribs · count) - Asian (Taiwanese) food, can provide pictures
6. Staka ( talk · contribs · count)
7. 5faizan ( talk · contribs · count)
8. Shruti14 ( talk · contribs · count) - food and drink save lives
9. FiveRings ( talk · contribs · count) - I'm a cookin' fool
10. Redhookesb ( talk · contribs · count) - Interested in biomolecular aspects of taste

• New articles created in December

Sloppy giuseppe

• Templates

UserBox template and WikiProject Food and Drink rating banner template

34 different food and drink related stub templates

This page will assist you in creating or editing an article on a cuisine

Food Templates

Info Box Templates

QSR Restaurants

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