Comments about ‘Cheers! Cookbook contains alcohol-free recipes for holidays and other occasions’

"When I gave up drinking nine years ago, I discovered that less than 10 percent of the entire population consumes 100 percent of the alcohol sold in America," said Scott in a telephone interview from her home in New Jersey."

I dispute this statistic. Sources, please.

I agree with wine with dinner
Outside of Utah, it is very hard to see a restaurant table without wine goblets.
Having wine with dinner doesn't make those people alcoholics, but I seriously doubt that it's only 10% of the population.
Still. . . . good article and I will start to be more wary of what I put into my cooking.

I did some quick "googling" and discovered from a couple of university studies in Texas and Finland that (according to their research), 50% of the population at large does not drink alcohol. And of the alcohol consumed, 10% of drinkers consume 50% of the alcohol. Also, 1 in 10 of those who consume alcohol at all will become dependent.

Definitely a far cry from the statistics in the article. But also much different that I would have assumed based on personal observation. I would have agreed with "Wine and dinner" and "i agreee."

must be banned from LDS cookbooks. Vanilla has alcool.

The statistic wasn't presented as fact in the article. It was part of a quote from somebody. The person quoted had their statistic wrong, but the article didn't propose it as fact. They should have countered it with a more accurate one, perhaps, but it was never presented as factually accurate.

It would have been difficult to correct the quote with a more reliable statistic without seeming to insult the quoted source.

It might have been best to have cut that part of the quote altogether; it serves no purpose other than to make the speaker look gullible.

I'm afraid in order to get too much alcohol from a rum cake, you'd have to eat the whole bleepin' cake. You'd throw up from the sugar and fat before any rum would harm you. Ugh. Of course, from the portion sizes I've seen of desserts at some of my Mormon family and friends' gatherings, I may take that back. No alcohol, ever, on site but enough sugar and trans fats to do their own share of harm!

Just reading these righteous postings I can't help but feel much more righteous than I have ever felt in years.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

WOW!
My two sisters drink Barley Water, made with 1/4 cup barley and a gallon of distilled water. They do not add the sugar or juice. One is totally off her asthma medication, the other has cut way down on hers. The most exciting part is that they are both breathing.
Other people have tried drinking barley water for asthma, and have found it works very well.
Thank you for this article.