Guest guest Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 > >What is the American standard for weights and measures? > > We are currently working on a title called "Italian Eggfree Cakes". >The author, Isvara ex-Maharaja's sister, is telling us that we should >skip all imperial measures and only use decimal. Apparently, this is >the new standard also in the USA. The standards for the USA are defined by the National Institute of Standards. Its standards for weights and measures, with comparison to other systems, is at <http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/appxc/appxc.htm>. Generally speaking, the US has not converted to the metric system. Regarding the UK. . . See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures>. There we find: "The Metric system was officially adopted in the UK for most purposes, some decades ago, and both taught in schools and used in books. It is now mandatory for the sale of food. However, a very large part of the population continues to use Imperial measures. Most modern cookery books give ingredients in both units, although it is now becoming common for cookery books to use Metric measures only." Hare Krsna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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