Opinion | Cups, pounds or catties, imperial or metric, why are kitchen measures so confusing?

Opinion | Cups, pounds or catties, imperial or metric, why are kitchen measures so confusing?

A few years ago I worked on a cookbook with a chef whose recipes were, shall we say, less than precise. As an old-school cook, he worked primarily by touch and intuition, adding a pinch of this and a splash of that without measuring. By sight, he knew when there was enough spice, when a … Read more