Journal of a Grassroots Economist

Journal of a Grassroots Economist

Recipes - the Game

Can You Coordinate 8 Cooks and 24 Recipes?

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Will Ruddick
Jul 01, 2026
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A game about promises, food, debt, settlement, and the dangerous question of whether everyone can get fed.

Here is the challenge: Can you coordinate 8 different resources, held by 8 different cooks, into 24 finished recipes?

Not without counting, trading, promises or cleanup.

That is the little world inside Recipes, a new Grassroots Economics game about cooks, ingredients, p…

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