> The only problem is .. our recipes use ounces or grams but not (usually) cups and I remember a friend once telling me
that most people don't have kitchen scales, so it might take us a while to work out the quantities.

Good God, no Jo! Imperial or metric is fine. Avoirdupois perhaps - but this whole mullarkey of cups just does my head in. I've often tried to cook meals from an old cookbook from the '60s and have ruined them simply because I failed to convert the amounts prperly from cups to grams/ounces. I'm sure everyone can work it out from accepted measures, right??

ps I was looking through a Cuba guidebook yesterday and found a recipe for a local soup. It's main ingredient? Okra!. I'll pass it on anon (an' on, an' on).