A correspondent who spends a lot of time in Manhattan wrote in to say he spotted crêpe mix for sale at Morton Williams for $6.99. As he noted, such a mix is "almost all flour."
Stupid things like crêpe mix contribute to people thinking they don't know how to cook. Nothing galls me like pre-made polenta. (I can make real polenta in 10 minutes using 1 ingredient.) But I admit I can't tell you if cake mixes fall into this category because I never bothered to try making a cake out of real ingredients.
N.B. I use the circumflexes on the word crêpe because in my other role (I resisted saying rôle) as the editor of a society rag, I had to learn how to make one because every other article describes a "fantastic fête.")
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