SC - Kitchens

[kat]

Anne-Marie writes:

> Boy, interkingdom anthropology time!
> Here in Madrone, we have a huge guild, and often will have 20-40
> live, warm, experienced cook bodies champing at the proverbial bit.
> It is very unusual for us to do any pre-cooking, and we all spend
> happily all day making food the day of the feast.

....as opposed to here, where one person volunteers to run the whole thing and then has to browbeat his/her spouse and 5-6 friends into being "kitchen staff" and bribe the local impoverished college students into serving or cutting veggies or what-have-you...


> The Kitchen Heads job is to vet all the recipies, with guild members
> help, do the expansions, do a kitchen schedule, line up the crew,
> do the grocery lists and budgets, and then do a massive grocery
> shopping saga usually the night before, or that morning. The
> emphasis is in sharing the fun in the kitchen...we all like to cook and
> so it wouldn't be fair to bogart all the work, you see.

...whimper...

> The day of the
> feast, the kitchen head doesnt get to cook anything (poor kitchen
> head!), but flits from station to station, making sure everything is on
> track and that everyone has all the ingredients they need.

...moan....

> We are fortunate here in Seattle in that the Pike Place Market is just
> downtown...we call ahead with our lists, and the nice produce
> vendors, bakers, butchers, fishmongers (ooo! That boy at the Pike
> Place Fish market! but I digress), dairys, cheese makers, spice
> merchants and import food stores have things all boxed up and
> ready for us (at wholesale prices, usually) so we just need to swing
> by the the BIG truck and load 'em up!  Witha little leg work, its one
> stop shopping.


<<<envy envy envy envy>>>  Man, I think I know where *I* wanna live when I grow up!!!!

Sheesh.  Not only does she have The Spice Guy, she's got waterfront wholesale one-stop shopping.

Guess I'll just go jump off a cliff now...  <G>

But seriously... this is a good model and maybe something to aspire to.  Hmmmmm... and all this can happen just from starting up a cooking guild and encouraging it?   

	- kat, who is slowly turning from green to thoughtful...  ;-)


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