Re:Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to cara...
by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:55AM
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> to “people who cook” than to “professional chefs
You have a point here, there is a "context collapse" happening, when this definition is necessarily precise for professional chefs, and less so for "people who cook to eat".
However such recipe books typically claim to bring some of the professional techniques and results to the home cook, and as such are sowing confusion if they encourage "semantic drift"
You have a point here, there is a "context collapse" happening, when this definition is necessarily precise for professional chefs, and less so for "people who cook to eat".
However such recipe books typically claim to bring some of the professional techniques and results to the home cook, and as such are sowing confusion if they encourage "semantic drift"
https://interparestrust.org/terminology/term/context%20colla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_change