Re: OT: Tech writers and cookbooks

Subject: Re: OT: Tech writers and cookbooks
From: "Susan Guttman" <sguttman -at- semantix -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:09:05 -0500

Julia Child's new book, "Julia's Kitchen Wisdom" has an excellent index,
probably because it was designed as a reference book.


At 02:46 PM 01/30/2001 -0600, Jo Baer wrote:
>One of my biggest complaints about some cookbooks is the indexing. If you
>wantto see lots of examples of lousy indexes, look at a bunch of
>cookbooks. If I
>have eggplant on hand and want to find recipes for using it, it isn't
>helpful if
>the only index reference is to Golden Crunchy Eggplant Surprise.


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