People do not like to change the way that they do things unless:
-- it's fairly easy to do so and
-- they see a huge payoff in making the change.
Otherwise, folks will continue to do things the way they have habitually
done them. Even the marketing of microwave ovens took more than 20 years
bef
Pretty well all recipes today in the UK are metric. All the cookbooks from the
likes of Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith, etc are in metric, as are the recipes each
week in the Sunday Times Magazine. A popular TV series, titled Come Dine With
Me, also gives out its recipes in metric only.
The non-me
Apparently the server did not send this out.
Jim
Original Message
Subject: Re: [USMA:45705] the metric system and cooking recipes
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:53:32 -0500
From: James R. Frysinger
To: U.S. Metric Association
CC: Sally Mitchell
References: <7df328f6da8a43bd96d5f
Dear John,
One of the issues with cooking recipes is tradition. Recipes are
passed on from generation to generation (often from mother to
daughter) and sometimes over hundreds of years.
As an example, my wife gathered together recipes from her mother's
neighbours in an old people's villag
On 2009/08/29, at 02:53 , James R. Frysinger wrote:
I can see a benefit to a few years of permissible metric-only
labeling in the marketplace, but essentially it's going to take a
federal mandate (a fiat!) to metricate the U.S., rather like what
Australia did. (But NO MORE millimeter v. cen
Ah, charge 'em with a [large unit] of restraint and they'll whittle it
down to a [small unit] of restraint.
Yes, we know about (and admire) the Metric Conversion Board in Australia
and its accomplishments. Surely, though, they were not charged with
-- "Provide assistance to anyone feeling am
On 2009/08/29, at 09:37 , James R. Frysinger wrote:
I presume there was some explicit or implicit imperative, or at
least an expectation, to accomplish the task fully within some short
span of time and across all sectors.
Dear Jim,
To support my earlier contention about the nature of the m
I retract my previous statements, Pat. I no longer blame the Australian
government for demanding the metrication of the country.
Jim
Pat Naughtin wrote:
On 2009/08/29, at 09:37 , James R. Frysinger wrote:
I presume there was some explicit or implicit imperative, or at least
an expectation,
