All our books use both imperial and metric. Some are imperial first and some are metric first. All tend to convert to an easy number rather than the silly over precise examples we all know about.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:46517] RE: [USMA:46512] Re: [USMA:46509] Oh how our minds . Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:42:12 +0000 Most of our cookbooks that we currently own (here in the UK) are mostly metric, or metric with imperial in parentheses. A random sample, with ISBN numbers for anyone who is interested: Metric/imperial in parentheses: Vegetarian Suppers - no ISBN, produced by Sainsbury's, a UK supermarket chain, as a 'freebie' some years ago as part of a promotion Greek Cooking - 0583197329 30 Day diet - 0852238312 Sensational Vegetable Recipes - 0864113676 The Popular Potato - 9781862563780 (this is an Australian book, mostly metric but using lots of cups with mass equivalents in grams in parentheses, conversion table in the back including deg C to dec F - printed 1989) Many more stacked away, but it's late, so will leave it at that for now. John F-L To: U.S. Metric Association Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:04 PM Subject: [USMA:46516] RE: [USMA:46512] Re: [USMA:46509] Oh how our minds . Dear Martin, Of all the Australian cook books that are available might I suggest, 'Cookery – the Australian Way'. It is a school text and reference book that is rarely found in charity shops because students who use it at school then keep it for life because it is a very useful basic cookbook that contains all of the common Australian recipes. Another source on this topic is Metric Cooking with Confidence by Wendy Pomroy (and myself) that you can find at http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/MetricCookingWithConfidence.pdf Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. On 2010/01/30, at 06:51 , Martin Vlietstra wrote: May I make a cheeky suggestion – look at Aussie and South African cookery books. Also visit http://www.cutecook.co.uk/ for metric units in British cookery. (Cutecook is publicity officer for the UKMA). From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John M. Steele Sent: 29 January 2010 13:59 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:46512] Re: [USMA:46509] Oh how our minds … … snip Certainly there is a large storehouse of US recipes that would need to be converted if the US ever fully metricated (or a metric cook cooked them). I don't know whether we would convert to mass-based cooking or stay volumetric. Certainly a large table of foood densities is necessary to convert from volumetic to mass-based cooking. Hopefully you do it once and write it down. … snip _________________________________________________________________ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/
