Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> "Doug Kanter" > hitched up their panties and
> posted :
>
>>
>> "Goomba38" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Old Mother Ashby wrote:
>>>> Donald Martinich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Cooking 101: Add 1 Cup of Simplicity
>>>>> As Kitchen Skills Dwindle, Recipes Become Easy as Pie
>>>>> By Candy Sagon
>>>>> Washington Post Staff Writer
>>>>> Saturday, March 18, 2006; A01
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> <snip article about loss of cooking skills>
>>>>
>>>> Haven't you been reading the Food Snob thread? GO AWAY!!!
>>>>
>>>> Christine
>>>
>>> I haven't... and I'm disheartened by the article in The Post. :/
>>> Goomba
>>
>> There's a fabulous cookbook that's been around forever. It explains
>> all the terms described in the Washington Post article. Mention it
>> here, and a handful of insipid little ****s will belittle the book
>> because it never was, and still is not trendy. But, it takes the
>> place of an important thing in cooking: the passing down of
>> knowledge from one generation to another. I'm not sure why this
>> continuum of knowledge has been interrupted, but I suspect it's
>> related to two-income households. There was a time when kids came
>> home from school and found someone cooking. And, not just cooking,
>> but doing it slowly and deliberately, in a way which might catch the
>> attention of little kids. (Forget teenagers). This type of thing was
>> gone for a couple of decades. It still is, in many households.
>
> Doug, what is the name of the book?
>
> Michael

I once bought a book for a friend called "How to Boil Water". There is no
such thing as a stupid cookbook if it actually helps people learn how to
cook.

Jill