[Sca-cooks] OOP: Play about a famous chef

[James Prescott]

Greetings,

Of interest, though perhaps of no practical use to most, "The Old
Trout Puppet Workshop" in Calgary, Canada, will be presenting a
new work entitled "The Last Supper of Antonin Carême" from Jan 28
through Feb 21 2004.

Here's what they say about their own play:


A culinary theology

In this, their latest production, the Old Trouts 
creep trembling into the Great Kitchen of Heaven, 
to investigate its secrets and reveal therein the 
fundamental truths of existence. They plunge 
headlong into the stock pot and sing hallelujahs 
to the feast before us, illuminating no less than 
the very breath of the world, the spiritus mundi, 
the eternal and constant miracle of creation.

The Old Trouts summon the ghost of Antonin 
Carême, Le Cuisinier des rois et le Roi des 
cuisiniers, grandfather of classical French 
cuisine. Left alone as a child at the gates of 
revolutionary Paris, he found apprenticeship at 
the humble restaurant of an un-named Chef who 
taught him the mysteries of transcendental 
cuisine. Who was the un-named chef? And what did 
he teach the grubby urchin who became the 
greatest cook in the world?

This is no ordinary puppet-show about cooking and 
the French Revolution. It's the first 
congregation of the Church of the Un-named Chef.



Thorvald, who will definitely be going to see this