[Sca-cooks] Books
Robert Downie
rdownie at mts.net
Sun Sep 18 07:29:17 PDT 2005
Micheal wrote:
> Greetings
> I don`t know about Cooking for Crowds for Dummies you might be right.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johnna Holloway"
> <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
> To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 9:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Books
>
>> The Scotch Whisky book is pretty good.
>> I have been debating the Cooking for Crowds for Dummies...
>> is an audience going to be insulted if they are told they need
>> to read this title? Does this conevy a lack of confidence in their
>> abilities?
>> Johnnae
>
It's simply the title of a hugely popular series boasting many many titles:
"(insert any subject under the sun) for dummies". I don't think they're
implying anything negative about their readers, just indicating that
they cover the entire subject as if the reader has no previous knowledge
of said subject.
Faerisa
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