non-member submission - Re: SC - Cider Sauce Experiments

[margali]

In a message dated 12/13/00 2:57:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
margali at 99main.com writes:

> Why would anybody want to ban the Harry Potter books? They are charming
>  [i even have all 4 as e-books in my computer so I don't have to fight
>  for them with my lord husband;-)  ]
>  back to food content:
>  Don't you just love the descriptions of the various dinners, the way the
>  empty tables have the 'groaning board' appear? And I love the
>  descriptions of the funny wizardly candies! chocolate frogs with wizard
>  trading cards beat mallomars all hollow!
>  margali

Well, from what I can understand about the upset, the christian community 
feels that having books where the lead characters are outright practicing 
sorcerey is an abomination; the writer's guilds think that the books 
shouldn't be considered "serious" fiction (I saw one report where the 
gentleman writer made the comment that it wasn't like she was Dickens or 
anything....). I think both comments are ludicrious. Personally, I've read 
the books and am quite "entrenched" in the whole Harry Potter universe. My 
son, who **never** reads, picked up the first book and didn't put it down 
till he was finished. He read straight through two whole days. Anything that 
gets kids reading again and away from game boy is wonderful. 

As for the food content, well, yes, I adore the descriptions. They have 
already come out with All Flavor Beans (although I doubt if it will have some 
of the more vile versions) in the candy world. I personally like the idea of 
the owl post, myself. No need to know an address, just a person's name. How 
wonderful for those of us who keep losing their address books.

Lars