Cooking

 I have a small whole chicken that I'm going to roast.  I looked on the internet to get roasting temperatures and times for chicken.

I got all sorts of hits but every one I went to turned out to be a long post about essentially nothing and when I finally got to the "recipes" they were vague beyond usefulness.

There was a time when the internet was a great, simple, and quick way to look up how to cook something.  Now cooking posts seem to be full of blather and useless "information."

In the end I dug out my mother's old paperback cookbook from the 1930s or 40s - the pages are browning and getting brittle so you have to treat the book carefully - there's no publication information or date anywhere.  

In there in about 30 seconds I found a beautiful little chart of cooking times and temperatures.