Talk:spirit cooking

RFV discussion: November 2016–May 2017
This is what you get when you take a work of performance art by Marina Abramović called "Spirit Cooking", and make a generic term out of it. As far as I can find on Google Books and Google Scholar, there are's nothing but a few mentions of Marina Abramović and her work and an odd assortment of coincidental occurences of the two words together.

On Google Groups there are some bizarre recent discussions about an email invitation that John Podesta received related to the performance piece- something that was misinterpreted as evidence that Hillary Clinton's campaign staff were practicing satanic rituals!

Unless this can be shown to be a lower-case term for something other than Marina Abramović's performance-art piece and meeting the definition in the entry, this should be deleted as encyclopedic and misleading. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:28, 5 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I wish I could unsee some of what I just saw. But...
 * 1996, Samuel, Spirit Cooking: With Essential Aphrodisiac Recipes, Samuel
 * No previews of this text were available, so no clue if this may be relevant.
 * 2013, Ross Fardon, This Could Be Your Future, Xlibris, pg 127
 * They set up their brass spirit cooking stoves in the aisle.
 * 2013, Marie Azzopardi-Alexander and Albert Borg, Maltese, Routledge, pg 351
 * spiritiera: 'spirit cooking stove'
 * 1966, Almqvist Ake Erik Alexander and Boij Karl Oskar Arne, Apparatus for burning spirit and similar liquid fuels US 3290907 A, United States Patents
 * FIG. 1 shows in sectional elevation a combination spirit cooking and heating stove incorporating the invention;
 * …but no evidence of the odd performance art. (Many references also to spirit cooker, spirit stove, but these refer to a spirit cooking stove and not some divisible adjective or activity. But this should be an RFD, not RFV, no? - Amgine/t&middot;e 07:20, 8 November 2016 (UTC)


 * I don't think any of this attests the sense in question, but rather a different sense, that would be SOP. RFV failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:28, 11 May 2017 (UTC)