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To: Gauguin who wrote (55517)	9/5/2000 9:08:05 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

>>{This is why it takes two chefs to put on a hat. The other one says, "You look fine."] Just grab one and put it on like that; like you know what you're doing. Like you're a complete idiot. "I have no idea what I'm doing. But I'm doing it."<< Oh, LOL, oh, literally, LOL. Do other people really laugh out loud when they post LOL? I do, because it looks so dumb, speaking of things that look dumb. I have no idea about the hat, but I bet I know who knows, and that's Lynn, the woman my brother didn't marry, who graduated Cordon Bleu, and has her own restaurant, two of them, actually, in New York. She has a lot of funny stories to tell about how ridiculous French chefs act. My guess, actually I'd bet money on it, is that the purpose of the hat (tocque, really) is to make everyone know that the person wearing it is in charge, as in the Head A-hole. At least I think so, the person with the tallest hat is the real chef and everyone else is just something like a saus chef or salad maker. Speaking of salads (what a segue, what a raconteur!) I have finally been indoctrinated, enlightened, whatever the word is, to the secret of Sensation Salad. Excuse me while I close the front screen door, moths are coming in and are attracted to the monitor light. (Perfect weather today, by the way!) Ok, I AM BACK BUT THE CAPS LOCK IS BUSTED NOW AND I WILL HAVE TO FINISH ON THE UPSTAIRS COMPUTER.

To: Gauguin who wrote (55517)	9/5/2000 9:58:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Marilyn, my father's second wife, used to make the best salad dressing, and when they split up I figured I'd never have it again. Come to find out it's an old Baton Rouge recipe out of the River Road Recipes Cookbook. We had it every day while we were all together. I got dragooned into washing and tearing romaine leaves and cutting up avocados and tomatoes, and my sister made the dressing, but I looked over her shoulders. Four ingredients, garlic, grated parmesan, olive oil, and lemon juice, that's all. This is a great dressing if you really, really like garlic a lot, because you use an entire head, or maybe two. Also about half a cup, or maybe a cup of grated parmesan, and half a cup, or maybe a cup, of extra virgin olive oil, and just a little bit of lemon juice, and you put it through the blender. No salt because the parmesan is salty. Proportions to taste, but the dressing will taste very strong when it's made, it comes to its own when it's on the salad. After all these years of being snobbish because they never use Reggiano, which is superior parmesan, I finally tried my own batch tonight and found out that Reggiano is too subtle, that Grana Padua would be good enough, or should I say, better. Do you ever do that, act snobbish about something for years and then find out you were wrong all along?

To: Gauguin who wrote (55517)	9/6/2000 12:08:37 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 71178

I dare you to wear that chef's hat to jury duty. eom

To: Gauguin who wrote (55517)	9/7/2000 3:47:12 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Anyone know why a chef's hat goes up so high? I mean, when you put one on, they seem absurd. REALLY ABSURD. You know? When you first put one on. Ever put on a fencing jacket? Maybe not quite ABSURD, but they do feel a little...uhm... WEIRD... truly...they do....at least the one I wore... thick material... tightly woven... starched... or maybe "sealed" with something that closed the weave on it... really stiff... you pulled it on and it almost bent your spine into a fencing stance whether you wanted to stand like that or not... lemme explain this better... thin, tight waist... back pulled into a curve, with your upper back pulled back but curved forward too...(difficult to explain that)... but the curvature of the spine is exaggerated... pulls your neck back...alters your center of balance so that your body has to rely on your lower back and legs to carry the action... and the collar was high and scraped your throat right under your chin... and... being a woman's jacket... the front of you felt sort of "armor-plated"... the jackets actually make you feel a bit "invincible" as soon as you pull one on... which is very odd because they aren't really very heavy... in fact, not at all.... makes you feel really different when you're wearing one... sort of... stiff... formal...and, I dunno... old-fashioned... chivalrous or something... like maybe you are ready to spring into action at any second to defend someone... throw down a gauntlet just so you can get to work and poke at someone with a foil. strange... I'm not generally the combative type... but those jackets...gee... they can exert some kind of mind control over you... almost like being "possessed"... yah..."possessed" by the ghost of Errol Flynn... or maybe it's just because they are so stiff and weird that it makes you start feeling angry after about 2 minutes of wearing one,...sort of like being locked in a closet by some practical joker... You know what I mean? Yep... there you are, standing there for a couple of minutes saying good-naturedly... "O.K., open the door now.. lemme out"... But then nobody does, and after 2 more minutes it isn't amusing any more and you feel like kicking down the door and booting the twit right in the ass.... Well, fencing jackets work the same way... for sure... You put them on and feel good-natured... sort of elegant...for about 2 minutes... then after 2 minutes, you just feel like kicking ass.... needing some "direction" to strike out towards because of the straight-jacket locked-in-the-closet feel of the jacket... yep.... think that's what it is.... ...or else it's just me... more combative than I thought I was... nah...it's the jacket that does it... oh yah... and one other thing about them... They make you feel like you can leap differently... Sort of like "boink"... all of a sudden your body can do stuff it never did before... like sort of "boink" forward... stiff-legged little leaps... like a goat or a deer... "boink-boink-boink"... across the floor... It's actually kind of cool...but weird... Can't explain it... Go put on a fencing jacket and see what I mean... seriously...