Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 09:20:46 +0200 (MET DST)
To: marxism-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: Re: Further Notes on Theory/Practice (Was Questioning the desire...)


>JornJorn, I think this is an important thread which I hope others join. Here
>I wish to add a note to the bread-kneading example as you amplify it.
>
>    Your mother *showed* and explained it. I could tell you how to make
>my kind of corn bread over the net. In other words, the process I follow
>is *completely* reduced to theory, and can be expressed in words (a
>manual or a cookbook). Hence when I make cornbread my practice is controlled
>by theory, a theory that in fact emerged from someone else's practice years
>or decades ago (I took the recipe off a box of Quaker corn meal (they later
>changed it, then changed it back). But at some point in the past someone
>had to mess around, trying various combinations of cornmeal, wheat flour,
>and sugar to arrive at the recipe (theory). Kneading has not yet been
>raised to that level of theory, so it has to be either *demonstrated* or
>practiced in a clumsy way

Fairly intersting.Yeah even if somebody has been messing around with the 
recipes there comes a time in practice where one has to decide,should i bake 
it this way or that way? But lacking experience or perhaps of being afraid 
of burning the bread one turns this way and then that. Up to a point just 
fine. But at a certian point of time one natually has to take responibility 
for their own bread. Funny thing about my recipe is: That it at present 
appears to be always in the making stage. I probably will be dead before the 
correct recipe for the best recipe for the kind of bread i like is discovered.

But bread is better then chicken!


malecki froim exile






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