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  <name><![CDATA[Mela Eckenfels]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[ Mela Eckenfels, is a nerdy, dorky geek girl, former unix system administrator (BSD-flavoured) and passionate roleplayer, that still flips in her daily cooking agenda between 'larval stage' and the culinary geek.

Growing up a vegetarian in a meat-adoring family forced her – while attending 'gymnasium' - to take her first steps in cooking. Later in life, while living in a Berlin (squat) commune, she developed her skills for big stews. (Till her fellow housemates appealed fiercely against the daily stew.)

During her days as a freelance system administrator her cooking skills declined to dry soup mixes, sandwich toasts and Chinese fast food, until her friendship with Petra, and then a bigger kitchen at home, helped to awaken the long-buried cooking skills again. With a new love for good food, especially soul food and Japanese, Mela started to cook again - for her nerdy husband, friends and bigger groups. (Mostly catering for live-roleplaying events.) And not just stews, this time.

Today Mela works as freelance write for books and magazines, also as trainer for unix system administration.
]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>    <born_at>07/05/1971</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[O'Reillys Kochbuch für Geeks]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Petra Hildebrandt]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Das LARP-Kochbuch: Ambiente-Küche auf Live-Rollenspielen]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mela Eckenfels]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mela Eckenfels]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jutta Bossert]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Geek Cookbook]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mela Eckenfels]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mela Eckenfels]]></name>
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