Using units in her book tells me that she doesn’t intend for people to use the entire package, but to measure out specific amounts. For some reason she chose to have people measure out those amounts in metric units. Not dual and not imperial. Even if the packages are all rounded metric, she could still use imperial only or dual, just as she could use metric only if the packages were imperial only.

It appears (from the shows I have seen) that she does not mention units at all.

Unfortunately the book in question is themed around how you can cheat by using packaged items to make a recipe. Packaged items are almost always metric.

I could agree with this answer if for a moment I thought the recipes intended for one to use the entire package at one time. But if one is expected to use portions from any number of individual packages, then one will have to do some measuring.

This is where the choice to use metric or imperial would come in. Someone who would claim not to have any metric instruments in her/his kitchen would have a problem with the recipes if they are metric only. Proper research from the publishers would determine if such claims are valid or hot air. If there was some research and we know the result of the book is that it is only metric, then we can deduce that from the research no qualms about metric only recipes would present a problem and those who claim to only have imperial instruments in their kitchen are in fact so few as to not make a difference or their claims are in fact hot air.

Either way you look at it, it is a trend and a good one at that.

I wish what you say were true.

Unfortunately the book in question is themed around how you can cheat by using packaged items to make a recipe. Packaged items are almost always metric.

Personally, what I find most bizarre in relation to issues around food and diet is that the “slimming industry� appears to persist in predominantly using imperial measure, not only in relation to recipes but also food energy values as well as body weight and height for people. In the latter case this means that “fiddle factors� have to be applied when calculating a person’s body mass index. At best all seems rather silly.

I’m sure both Delia, her supporters and publishers researched the matter carefully and decided to go metric only after learning that there would be no adverse effects to their decision. It is really a non-issue. When you consider, despite the claims of anti-metric persons, that the vast majority of British people have been exposed to metric only products in the shops for a long time already. People have adjusted to metrication and no longer need the crutch of imperial measures tagging along.

Anti-metric people like to site biased polls or polls from the past that claim the majority prefer imperial. But as Delia experienced and you experienced, metric is not an issue at all. People accept metric only now as normal.

Don’t allow yourself to be persuaded otherwise by anti-metric persons who can’t face the reality that metrication is now accepted everywhere and is anormal part of people’s lives.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delias-How-Cheat-at-Cooking/dp/0091922291?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197556115&sr=8-2

Lots of debate pro and con about how good (or bad) the book is. What was most telling for me is that the question of whether Imperial should appear at all in the recipes never came up. Certainly a good sign!