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Subject:Re: Procedures - Must we use numbered steps? From:"Surag R" <suragtechwriter -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Johnson, Tom" <TJohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:53:33 +0530
>Surag said, I think recipe writers should learn from technical writers :)
>To which I say, "Why do you say that?" Maybe recipe writers are more
efficient than we are.
I cannot guage the writing skills. Maybe the recipe writers are efficient
than technical writers in cooking. Most of the recipe writers are
professional chefs. If the chefs are using professional ghost writers, then
such books do have numbered procedures.
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