[Sca-cooks] plate presentation

[Micheal]

  Would you be talking of individual or platters to tables here?
 Da
 YA its a silly question but I know there`s a difference.
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From: <kingstaste at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] plate presentation


> The work we did in class involved looking through a lot of culinary
> magazines (both professional and non) as well as the food books I had with
> nice presentations to find pictures of food presentations they liked, then
> we talked about what made them appealing (one kid is from London, he 
> picked
> the most boring-looking food - said it looked comforting - I told him his
> roots were showing).  I found that the book I did not have and felt I 
> should
> would be called "Making Food Beautiful".  Why don't I have that book? 
> Does
> it exist? I know there are numerous Garde Manger books, I did take in the
> one I have on Chinese Garnish.   I put together a handout on judging 
> foods,
> mainly copied out of my Culinarian textbooks from my apprenticeship (I did
> not type the information in).  After A&S this weekend, I can give you the
> basics of that information.
> Christianna
>
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> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+kingstaste=mindspring.com at ansteorra.org]On
> Behalf Of Stefan li Rous
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:51 PM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] plate presentation
>
>
>> Christianna
>> up trying to put together a class on plate presentation for tomorow at
>> 8:30AM.
> I assume this is on placing food items on a plate for serving and
> arranging and garnishing them so everything looks nice?
>
> Are you making a class handout for this? If so, can I get a copy? Even
> if this is for modern food/restaurants, I'm still interested and some
> of it might apply to medieval foods, as well.
>
> Thanks,
>   Stefan
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