food and appearance...was Re: SC - quick important note

[Christi Rigby]

Patrick Hood wrote:

I think you hit on one big peeve of mine.  A key point to making food
appitizing is making it recognizable.  How many feasts/wedding receptions
have you been to with unidentifiable sandwiches, pastes etc.  If nothing
else make sure whoever is serving your tables has a basic understanding of
what is in each dish.
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Actually you have hit on a fun pastime of my husband and I.  We go somewhere
and can't recognize what is being served.  My husband hands it to me, asks
me what is in it.  After I take a guess, he then asks a server and sees how
close I am.  I am usually right to about 90%.  At one restaurant we went to,
we were seated on the porch and there was no outdoor light so you could not
recognize the food.  Once the salad was served my husband asked about the
dressing and before the server could respond I told him exactly what was in
it.  This, being a very nice upscale restaurant, was a complete shock to the
server and he just shock his head and said I was right.  Later he brought
the chef out to me who shook my hand and offered his congratulations, since
this was an experimental dressing he had been working on as his signature
dressing for 2 years.

Murkial af Maun
Apprentice to Mistress Elaina de Sinistre
Barony of Caerthe
Kingdom of the Outlands

P.S.  Welcome to the list! Sorry about the mundane intro to your post above,
but forgot how to spell your persona name.