jmcquown wrote:
> jmcquown wrote: [snip]
> I love to read old "receipts" because some of them are purely funny.
> But I still don't think Fannie Farmer was evil <G> simply because she
> thought recipes needed measurements for newbie cooks.
>
I'm sure Fannie was a wonderful person. I said her *legacy*, meaning
the illusion that cooking was a matter of following a precisely
measured recipe, was evil. Put it this way, knowledgeable spectators
at many tennis matches can tell who is going to win a match by simply
noticing which catches the ball earlier with her/his groundstrokes. In
the same way, if you peek in the kitchen and see the cook frequently
tasting as she/he goes along, odds are it will be good food. If they
never taste, they aren't cooks. At best, they're chemists. -aem