Mordechai Housman wrote:
> "aem" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> > Mordechai Housman wrote:
> >
> >> I'm still an uneducated amateur, still fishing my way through the
> >> labyrinth of cooking in all its complexity. For someone like me, this
> >> is
> >> a fairly good resource. It gives me a basic idea of what things go
> >> with
> >> what.
> >
> > I really don't think it does. Nothing validates those choices.
>
> Pardon me, but I don't understand this. Nothing validates these choices?
> You mean you think it's WRONG to use bay leaves in fish, or saffron in
> rice, and so forth, as well as the other choices given on that list?
>
> > There's nothing wrong with your posting these lists, though I have no
> > idea why they got put on the rfc website. I just don't see how these
> > listings are useful, that's all. They are catchalls, on the one hand,
> > and incomplete on the other hand.
>
> If the list is incomplete, please suggest additions and/or corrections.
> They would be welcome, at least to me.
>
It's one thing to plead ignorance, it's another to pretend to be so
dense. Forget it. -aem