[Sca-cooks] Smoking

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Laura C. Minnick:
>So Adamantius, should I look for a pair of soft slippers and a 
>quilted jacket with satin lapels for you for Christmas? For smoking 
>in, I mean?

I confess I no longer own a calabash pipe with a meerschaum bowl, but 
I still have a rather nice drop-stemmed meerschaum pipe. I get it out 
about once a year.

>  Of course there may be the problem of keeping the meat and oils out 
>of the silk, but...

Thanks, but I don't need anyone's help to appear like a greasy slob. 
I can do it by myself. ;-)

>Hoo-boy. Too many Thin Man movies...
>
>'Lainie
>(who actually owns one of those nifty jackets- mine has big gold 
>dragons embroidered on the lapels)

I used to have a soft flannel smoking jacket in a tiny grey check 
pattern, and black silk lapels. I don't remember what happened to it. 
But I never got food stains on it.

Adamantius

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