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This, in the front matter, just blew me away: "As we sent out our recipes for testing, we heard from friends, colleagues and family that none of them used the weight measurements we had provided. So, we decided not to use them in our book [....] However, if you are a person who prefers weights, we've created this handy conversion chart for you:" This is followed by the usual US-metric-Imperial conversion chart that is cut-and-pasted into every cookbook published. It is ABSOLUTELY USELESS for "people who prefer weights". A clueful editor would have caught this, and either removed the stupid claim, or put in a proper conversion chart (one that says how much the authors think a cup of flour, confectioner's sugar, oats, etc. weighs). Converting ounces avoirdupois to grams is trivial (multiply by 28). Converting degrees Fahrenheit to degrees Celsius is only slightly more complicated. Converting volume measurements of a compactable ingredient like flour to the actual quantity (mass) is impossible to do with any accuracy. (The density of flour can vary up to 20% depending on how it's stored and how you measure it!) To have thrown this information away -- in a BAKING cookbook -- is inexcusable.