[Sca-cooks] A little diversion

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I rated about 17 points, that's pretty darn geeky.

Selene, Caid

Vincent Cuenca wrote:

> Are you a food geek?
>
> Take the following test and determine your personal level of culinary
> geekdom.
>
> Do you, or Have you ever:
>
> 1. Lectured complete strangers on the uses of unfamiliar foodstuffs?

Well duh, yeah, in the market AND in the SCA.

> 2. Know what "rocket" is?

yes

> 3. Sneered at the lazy yuppie scum who buy premade polenta at the
> supermarket?

yes, but sneering at lazy yuppie scum is just too easy.

> 4. Grown your own herbs?

yes

> 5. Grown your own vegetables?

yes

> 6. Grown your own wheat?

NO, no room, but I know which wheat to plant when pretty much

> 7. Foregone buying ice cream because the soup bones have taken over your
> freezer?

yes, after Twelfth Night when we served up all those loverly ducks and legs of
lamb

> 8. Made your own demi-glace?

Who doens't?

> 9. Own five mortars and pestles, but can't find your pepper mill?

Blush, guilty as charged, and the pepper mill was a wedding gift from Myra
Waldo so I should keep track of it.

> 10. Consider your mother a heretic for buying premade pie crusts?

or even premade pies! <swoon> <faint>

> 11. Subscribe to seven cooking magazines but mooch newspapers from your
> coworkers?

Shut UP!  Not recently, but this has happened.

> 12. Stayed up late reading Escoffier, Brillat-Savarin, or Julia Child?

2 out of 3 - I'm putting the MFK Fisher trans. of B-S on my Santa list this
year

> 13. Say to yourself, "I can cook better than this" at a trendy restaurant?

EVERY TIME!

> 14. Know the difference between a china cap and a chinoise?

Got me there.  Dunno.

> 15. Fantasize about meeting Charles Ranhofer, James Beard, or Martino da
> Como?

Shut up.

> 16. Brag about your 10-inch Dick?

Well not a Dick but other good knives

> 17. Know what the last question was about, you vulgar little creature, you?

I'll sharpen your Dick for you!

> 18. Have a special carrying case for your knives, sharpening steel,
> whetstone, and knife oil?

I have a protege' for that

> 19. Spend hours in the "Used Equipment" section of the restaurant supply
> store?

Shut UP.  Rule number three:  never let Selene in Williams-Sonoma or Star
Restaurant Supply alone.

> 20. Kept a sourdough starter alive for more than two months?

2 years, and named him "George."