"enoavidh" in 5.40:
> "e. winemonger" wrote :
>>
>> But yes. This is so wrong on so many levels, it's difficult to
>> comprehend. >
>
> "Cooking for those with more money than sense" I can't believe that
> the recipe calls for *frozen* puff pastry. ...

Yes: For ostentation to accompany cluelessness is not unknown . (Otherwise
maybe, the ratio of bottles of "1945 Romanée-Conti" sold, compared to the
number actually made -- see "High-end wine scams" posting -- would be nearer
1.) Marcel Rouff's famous book _The Passionate Epicure_ features an object
lesson along these lines, taught to the Prince of Eurasia, via boiled beef.

An expert wine merchant I know (now retired to raise her children) worked in
an area with a number of people with abrupt wealth. She would receive curt
requests for, say, "Your `best' Champagne -- price is no issue!" Being a
good merchant, she would steer them to good products that served their
needs, were suitably impressive to other people of like mind, etc.
Different, though, from what she might buy herself, or recommend to
people -- usually more polite and patient by the way -- who were interested
in wine, and in learning about it.

Cheers -- Max