[Sca-cooks] Re: Do You Know

[Elise Fleming]

Adamantius wrote:
>Was this carving instructor making fun of Martin Yan all the time?

Yes.

>Cooking classes held in a big open Home Ec lab?

Yes!

>Big instructor's table with a mirror thingy suspended from the
>ceiling so you could see the instructor's hands from above?

Yes!!

>Bleachers? (I'm not kidding.) If you answered "Yes," to any of
these questions,
>that probably was me, maybe ten or eleven years younger and
slimmer.

That I don't recall.  I remember sitting on the left as one looked
at the instructor, most of the way back in the home ec lab.
IIRC, the thing came about because I had autocratted the first Known
World Cooks' Collegium which was sponsored by our incipient group in
Ohio.  (Group never came into full status, but did host the first KW
Cooks' Collegium and the first KW A&S Symposium, which I also
autocratted.)  I had spoken with Annejke about the Collegium and
(again IIRC) she put this one together - or found the site...  I
came out from Cleveland and stayed with her.  She took me to meet
Chirhart.  I went out to lunch with a bunch of folk and had one of
my spells of tachycardia at the table.  Oddly enough, I don't
remember any of the other classes (barring mine) except for this
mental image of some fellow hacking and slashing (okay... slicing
and carving...) and being reflected in that overhead mirror.

I too was some 10 years and many pounds lighter... :-(

Alys Katharine