The user must consult a manual, find a similar dish and hope for the best.
The manual found its way to a publisher, and before long the 25-year-old Axelrod had earned $100,000 in royalties for his volume, "Tropical Fish as a Hobby".
"If you talk about God on a first date," said Mr. Gooch, whose previous manual, "Finding the Boyfriend Within" is now in paperback, "I guarantee the guy will call back".
A Special Forces officer flipped through the Ansar explosives manual found here, noting, as other American officers have, that it included page after page of instructional diagrams from United States Army publications.
One theory has been that he might have shaved his beard -- an expedient that an Al Qaeda training manual found by investigators after attacks in Europe urged as a means of escaping detection.
The main difference was that the manual found in Mr. Fawaz's apartment had some extra sections that were clearly added as Al Qaeda gained experience and training improved, said Ms. Katz, who has studied both in their original Arabic.
And there's no mucking around in industry: If you don't know something, read the manual, find the right people to learn from, and then get out there and give it a go.
For instance in the case of the six speed manual found on the 2000-2002 Audi S4, it is 2.3 liters (0.6 US gal).
But subsequent forensic investigation showed that the design of his shoe bomb followed specific details in training manuals found by American forces at training camps in Afghanistan.
Training manuals found by the French police in the apartments of suspected Al Qaeda members included plans to make such primitive explosives, investigators said.
