Spotch!

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the first recipe I ever posted on the Web. I was playing with the new toy; I didn't post another recipe until starting this blog this year.

The Spotch was served (probably invented) at Pepper's Family Restaurant in Alice Springs, Australia. This place has been closed for over 15 years, so I may be the only person in the world who makes it now. It was their one vegetarian entree -- which is one more than most restaurants in Australia's Northern Territory (which is Australia's Texas) had in the late 80's.

Instead of putting the recipe here, I will give you the archaeological thrill of seeing the page exactly the way it appeared in 1995, modulo a few changes which are not my fault; the html is identical (but modern browsers now seem to make the background white instead of grey by default).

The Original Spotch Page

Somehow, some folks in the network security department at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center stumbled on this page back in '95 or '96 and thought the word "spotch" was just the funniest thing ever. It became a sort of buzzword for them, I was later told. One of the members of that department eventually named his consultancy after it. This lives on:

http://www.spotch.com/

Bon appetit and joyeux anniversaire!