[Sca-cooks] Beef Bafflement article

[Adele de Maisieres]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>The first time I cooked beef roast was for an SCA event. I called my 
>mom, who cooks by instinct, and asked her how to cook a beef roast. She 
>said, "Look in a cookbook." I looked in the trusted Fanny Farmer I'd 
>asked mom to get me when I left home-- but it wasn't the 1960s edition 
>I'd grown up with, and it gave NO, count them NO, instructions for 
>cooking beef roasts. Why? 'cos it was the 1980s edition and devoted 
>megapages to how to cook in the microwave.
>  
>

Oh, don't get me started on microwaves! 

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Adele de Maisieres

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