Jimmy Wales

You wouldn't find a recipe for chocolate cake in Britannica.

And so I actually don't know the current state.

I haven't thought about that in many, many years now.

I wouldn't say there's chocolate cake recipes.

I mean, you might find a sample recipe somewhere.

I'm not saying there are none, but in general, no.

Like we wouldn't have recipes.

It's actually very complicated.

I love to cook.

I'm actually quite a good cook.

What's interesting is it's very hard to have a neutral recipe.

Like a canonical recipe for cake.

A canonical recipe is kind of difficult to come by because there's so many variants and it's all debatable and interesting.

For something like chocolate cake, you could probably say, here's one of the earliest recipes or here's one of the most common recipes.

But

You know, for many, many things, the variants are as interesting, you know, as somebody said to me recently, you know, 10 Spaniards, 12 paella recipes.

So, you know, these are all matters of open discussion.

I mean, yes, it does.

I mean, it doesn't because I know those numbers and see them from time to time.

But in another sense, a deeper sense, yeah, it does.