Re: OT: Tech writers and cookbooks

[Jo Baer <jbaer -at- mailbox1 -dot- tcfbank -dot- com>]

A careful reading of my original post reveals that I was complaining about
*some* cookbooks. ;-)

I agree that there are examples with excellent indexes, and I enjoy browsing
them. It just seems to me that it's a category with more than its share of
inadequate indexes, and I've never been quite sure why that aspect of the book
was slighted. I do know that indexing is hard work, and always takes at least
twice as long as I think it should.

Jo

> 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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