[Sca-cooks] Fabrication?

[Elaine Koogler]

kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:

>My teaching adventures continue, and today I met my two new classes that I
>am taking over from a lady who has been their teacher, but has taken a
>full-time cooking job with the Kroger Cooking School.  She was doing a lab
>with them on basic knife cuts, using onion, celery and carrot and then
>demonstrating how to cut up a chicken.  She has taught them that this
>process is called "fabrication", to fabricate meaning to break something
>down to its component parts, de-boning may or may not be a part of this
>process.  Ok, I've been through a culinary apprenticeship and cooked for
>quite a while, and I've read one or two books on the subject, but don't
>think I've ever run across this usage of this term.  Is this a culinary
>school thing?  Is it a well-used classical cuisine term I've somehow missed
>all these years?  Or is it something some textbook author came up with, and
>is now being passed along?
>Thought this was the crowd to ask :)
>Christianna
>  
>
Not what I've always known the term to mean.  I have always thought it 
meant pretty much the opposite...taking pieces and constructing 
something from them, i.e., a pre-fabricated house is one that has its 
parts put together before the house is actually put up on its final site.

Kiri