[Sca-cooks] Books

[Robert Downie]

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