"All "About Home Economics" by Deirdre Madden

Muirgheal

Just discovered this morning in the "All Things Retro" forum that "All About Home Economics" by Deirdre Madden is reprinted. Available at http://www.deirdremadden.ie/, proceeds are going to the Irish Cancer Society.

I used this text book for Home Economics for Junior Cert- soooo long ago- and I still use it to check out something at least once a week. (It's on the shelf between Jamie Oliver, and my mother's copy of "All In The Cooking.")

EDIT BTW I have no link with the publication, just want to pass on the fact that one of my most used cookery books is out there again

olaola

I just saw this myself last week! A total blast from the past and I still have a copy knocking around at home (with the cover falling off!)

Muirgheal

olaola wrote: »

I just saw this myself last week! A total blast from the past and I still have a copy knocking around at home (with the cover falling off!)

I think the book was supplied with the cover already falling off, and smiley faces drawn on the egg yokes in the bowl. Wonder if the reprint is the same....

r3nu4l

Muirgheal wrote: »

proceeds are going to the Irish Cancer Society.

Just to clarify on this point. Only a minuscule 10% of all profits are going towards the Irish Cancer Society. The people who have registered here to spam this book (now banned) have made much of the charity angle in their posts.

Ten percent is better than nothing but it's not something to rush out and buy if you think you're serving charity by doing so. Far better to donate the cost of the book in its entirety directly to the charity imo and forget about buying the book.

duploelabs

r3nu4l wrote: »

Muirgheal wrote: »

proceeds are going to the Irish Cancer Society.

Just to clarify on this point. Only a minuscule 10% of all profits are going towards the Irish Cancer Society. The people who have registered here to spam this book (now banned) have made much of the charity angle in their posts.

Ten percent is better than nothing but it's not something to rush out and buy if you think you're serving charity by doing so. Far better to donate the cost of the book in its entirety directly to the charity imo and forget about buying the book.

Where's your proof on the 10% angle?

Morag

duploelabs wrote: »

Where's your proof on the 10% angle?

LOL

It says so on the website promoting the book

Cherrycola

Im sure the publishers didnt reprint it or distribute it for free though, so they have to cover the costs somehow i suppose.

Doesnt bother me anyway, im still buying it cos i was raging that my mother dumped my old one in the bin! And its not like i dont have enough cookbooks already....:o

Morag

I still have mine there are some of the recipes I still use.

Muirgheal

r3nu4l wrote: »

Just to clarify on this point. Only a minuscule 10% of all profits are going towards the Irish Cancer Society. The people who have registered here to spam this book (now banned) have made much of the charity angle in their posts.

Ten percent is better than nothing but it's not something to rush out and buy if you think you're serving charity by doing so. Far better to donate the cost of the book in its entirety directly to the charity imo and forget about buying the book.

I apologise- I just found out about the reprint this morning, I thought other cooks of my era would like to know about it, and I hadn't seen it mentioned in the thread so far.

duploelabs

Sharrow wrote: »

duploelabs wrote: »

Where's your proof on the 10% angle?

LOL

It says so on the website promoting the book

Whoops my bad, the 10% of which they are referring to is what the people (the two daughters of Deirdre Maddan) who are releasing the book are receiving. The rest of the profits go to the publisher

Faith

Folks, the standard author's fee for a book is 10% of each sale. Thus, the authors are donating their entire share of the profit to charity. The other 90% goes to the publishers and everyone else who worked on the book. So they are donating as much to charity as they can. Let's leave it at that on the topic of charity, and return the discussion to the actual book.

lucylu

I still have that book at home

Cherrycola

Her daughters are on Tubridy right now talking about the book.

John Mason

i still have mine and use it a lot. it still has the sewing pattern for the apron in it

Neyite

God, that brings back memories!

Haddock Cobbler anyone?

psicic

Nice book - I stole my sister's copy when she finished her intercert decades ago and still use it for recipies.

Doesn't over-complicate things. Almost went mad two years ago when I thought someone had binned it on me.

Sigma Force

I think the book was supplied with the cover already falling off, and smiley faces drawn on the egg yokes in the bowl. Wonder if the reprint is the same....

lmao

Is that book not used in secondary schools anymore?

I still have mine, only school book I held on to, dunno why only got in to baking in the past couple of years and I was brutal at school. My chutney turned hard as a rock and I kept eating all the whisked egg white, dancing whole chickens across the counter and a lot of fn and blindin and not always having all the ingredients that I was told to bring in ..nightmare.

Book is very easy to follow though so if anyone is even looking for a basic recipe book it's handy. Think the only recipe I ever got right was rock buns.

Maybe if people already have the book even if the donated the 10% to the ICS anything would help.
I just used the book yesterday when my young one kept asking me what the difference between steak and beef was lol

..have nowt to do with the book either just happened to use it in school as well.

carolinej

I did home ec between 1995 - 2000 & I'm racking my brains & I can't remember this book. Maybe there were others on the syllabus we used. I do remember my home ec teacher banging a soup ladle on the desk to get abit of ciúnas!!!