This means then that to understand an American recipe I have to understand American packaging techniques whereas to undertand an French recipe, I need only understand how to weigh goods. This surely is a good example of the power of metrication, or at any rate an international system of measurement.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [USMA:38477] Re: Unexpected appearance of SI in US media > A stick of butter would be 1/4 pound. In the US, butter is often > sold in 1 pound or 1/2 pound packages. Most often these packages > are divided into four (or two) individually wrapped blocks known > as sticks. > >
