[Sca-cooks] Subject: Re: kitchen tips
Antonia Calvo
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Wed Aug 20 17:42:18 PDT 2008
morgana.abbey at juno.com wrote:
>The best way to put fish in the first course is to serve it cold. When I planned my first feast, I got a lot of static about the fish course. Mostly it was that 1) noone would eat fish and 2) it will be dried out.
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>Well, if you try to put a hot dish in the first course and something (royalty) delays the start of feast, yes it will be fish-flavored shingles hitting the tables. A cold dish went over so well that one half of one portion was all that came back to the kitchen.
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Did I mention the Great Chain of Being? It's Cooks and the Pope ->
Stewards -> Kings -> Everyone Else. Royal business will not get cold
_or_ overcooked.
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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