[Sca-cooks] Books

[Lonnie D. Harvel]

I use Food for Fifty, which is now in its 11th edition. (I have the 10th).

Robert Downie wrote:

> 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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