On Thu, 4 May 2006 20:10:35 -0600, "Mike Avery"
> wrote:

>On 5/4/06, LDR > wrote:
>>
>> Why also complain (other posters, I think) that she's too fussy? Or put
>> another way: Why
>> prefer information that's dumbed down?
>
>
>You misrepresent my comments. What I said was, "I have had all three of her
>bibles and think that her recipes are, overall, more trouble than they are
>worth. She is obsessively fussy, and, while the results are good, you can
>get as good a results without being so nitpicky."
>
>Many of her recipes are far too complex for the results. I've owned a
>bakery and had professional pastry chefs work for me. They look at her
>books with incredulity. You don't have to make it that hard to get good
>results.

Amazing...I feel exactly the same way about making bread.
>
>There is a difference between "dumbed down" and excessively complex.

Sure is.

> Good
>instruction falls somewhere inbetween these extremes. It's not rocket
>science, we're not inventing a cure for cancer... it's just a cake.

Or a loaf of bread, of course.


Boron