[Sca-cooks] Re: Documentation "Fun"...was "Potatoes and personal issues"

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On May 19, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Tom Vincent wrote:

> LOL!  What a great attitude to have in an EDUCATIONAL organization!
>
> Duriel

Everyone has reasons for feeling the way they do, including you and  
me. No harm, no foul. I like sneaking in a dish that's unlike  
anything people have seen [cooked] before, and inducing them to see  
what's familiar about it before they spot what's alien...

Adamantius

>
> Martha Oser wrote:
>> Duriel writes
>>> Besides, documentation is fun, interesting & challenging.  And  
>>> satisfying, too.
>>>  I think it's great to serve a wonderful, surprising dish  
>>> accompanied with several pages of research.
>>
>>
>> Well, YOU may think documentation is fun, and so may lots of other  
>> folks, but not everyone does.
>> Personally, I find the history of food (and a great many other  
>> things) fascinating, but I find research is a DRAG.  This is the  
>> main reason I haven't gone back to school to get a "Pile it Higher  
>> and Deeper" degree - all it really means is having to do research  
>> for the rest of my life!
>> I'd rather cook good food and serve it to appreciative people, not  
>> beat them over the head with my phone-book sized pile of  
>> documentation while they're eating.
>> -Helena
>>
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