[Sca-cooks] Re: Do You Know?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Ginny Claphan wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks]
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>
> Elise Fleming wrote:

>>Chirhart and Adamantius reminisce:
>>
>
> Was this carving instructor making fun of Martin Yan all the time?
> ("LOOOOOKIT HOW GAWJISS!!!") Cooking classes held in a big open Home Ec
> lab? Big instructor's table with a mirror thingy suspended from the
> ceiling so you could see the instructor's hands from above? 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.
>
> I recall several Midrealm cooks were there, in particular a Duchess
> Melisande and a man named Belisarius. I think...
> ============
> It wasn't that long ago, just back in April 1995:


Really? I thought it was longer ago, based on recollections of
[apparently not] contemporary events, where I worked, lived, etc.


> It was probably Duchess Melisande de Belvoir of Atlantia, and (now) Master
> Basilicus Phocas, of the shire of Dragonsmark, MK. The Midrealm has a couple of
> Mistress and Baroness Melisandes, but no Duchesses. ;)
>
> The mirror over the stove was lots of fun to demo cooking over. Gave you that
> "gosh, I must be in a public television studio kitchen feel."

Yes, and the bleachers didn't help prevent that ;-) . Which is why I
felt it necessary to do the Martin Yan thing. On the plus side, at the
time there was no possibility of "Bam!", or at least I had never
encountered such. Now, the real me, in a genuine kitchen situation, is
much more likely to taste a sauce or something, add a bit of salt, taste
it again, then launch into Dana Carvey's Church Lady Superiority Dance...

"Hit it, Pearl!"

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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