Someone earlier posted about relative sizes of cooking measurers. American and UK sizes for such things are different and Australian ones are often different from both. For many things such differences will be unimportant but for others they can be very important.

As an example, a friend of mine wanted to bake a particular bread recipe and could never get it right. Her recipe was from an American book; knowing I might be able to help her out she asked me whether American cup measures were the same as her Australian ones. I happened to have an American measure in my kitchen and so found out that it contained 200ml rather than the 250ml she was used to.

But the most important bit is to have fun cooking and enjoy the eating.

Cheers, Rowan