[Sca-cooks] Understanding the kitchen

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Christine Seelye-King:
>	I had a friend who liked cooking, but didn't take sanitation very
>seriously.  We had a huge falling-out once when I was cooking in a kitchen
>without much equipment, when I turned around to see him cleaning a chicken
>by pulling the innards bag out with his teeth.  I yelled at him and was
>thoroughly pissed off, and we didn't speak for several years.  Much later
>(we were talking by then), he came up to me and said he wanted to apologize
>to me.  He had taken a job in a kitchen to see what it was really like (he
>had cooked for the SCA for years, but never worked in a professional
>setting).  He only lasted a couple of days, and he made the same comment,
>that it had changed his life.  He apologized for never taking my concern for
>cleanliness seriously, and said that he understood a lot more of where I was
>coming from now.  I was completely blown away, as it had been many years,
>like I said.  Amazing how a few miles walked in another's shoes will give
>you a different perspective, huh?
>Christianna

Frankly, it's also an uncommon person who can get into a tiff like
that and admit, years later, to being wrong. Congrats on finding a
courageous friend! But yes, you're right, I think.

Adamantius, not kidding