[Sca-cooks] Documentation question

[johnna holloway]

I think it depends on what one is documenting and the degree to which
one wants to be absolutely accurate. How embarrased are you going to be
when someone catches the error and says "You are wrong; the date is
1705; not 1507"? Are you basing six months worth of work on just this
one fact?

Food history is one of those areas where one encounters mistakes in
dating all the time. Bear's example about coffee was a good one. It's
always good to check various printed reference sources as well as the
net if one can. I learned through the years to gather up all my
reference queries into one batch and then hit the library for a marathon
session of fact checking and re-checking. Even certain books (Trager
comes to mind) are not accurate.

Johnnae llyn Lewis   Johnna Holloway

Kerri Martinsen wrote:>
> So, how does one feel about using internet sites as sources?  I realize that
> some sites may be very suspect, but others may seem more respectable.  Is it appropriate to use websites as references for "know facts" (let's say,
> when packaged yeast was first used), or does one need to find it in a book?>
> Thanks for the input.>
> Vitha