It is impossible, he was in the habit of saying, to give precise recipes.

Before leaving, he implemented a HUD to show the player's inventory and the precise recipe of blocks needed to win.

What might sound like a very precise and well-considered recipe for utter boredom becomes a marvelously seductive and sensual experience.

"Ask investment bankers, they're hesitant to give you a cookbook," Mr. Young said, suggesting that there are few precise recipes for bid evalation.

The third part of the process is the most closely guarded secret of the company and only a few people know the exact process and the precise recipe.

But then, she mused, it isn't the precise recipes that count; it's the way cooking has of making you honest.

In her 1955 classic "Summer Cooking," the British food writer and Francophile Elizabeth David writes: "There is no precise recipe for a salade niçoise.

An individual piemaker's precise recipe, including the types and quantities of spice used, is usually kept a close secret, for fear of imitations.

Burmese dishes are not cooked with precise recipes.

MOST cultures have precise recipes for parlaying visions of sugar plums into Christmas dinner.