[Sca-cooks] Tips on Redactions

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> 2. Because you won't assume that the author knows things he doesn't.
> You won't, for example, assume that the author's description of how
> to roast meet is based on some esoteric information about how they
> did it in the fourteenth century.

Let's not assume that new cooks are completely gullible, ok? Wouldn't it
be better to teach people how to figure out whether information given in a
secondary source is likely to be well-informed or random, then just to
suggest that people go on making their own, completely uninformed and
random guesses and ignore other sources?

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."