At 08:13 AM 6/11/2003 -0500, Gumbie Tygress sent:

>Thanks to reader Lillian Toka for this:
>
>Sign posted in the Army recruiting office:
>
>"Marry a veteran, girls.  He can cook, make beds, sew, and is already
>used to taking orders."

That works only if he was enlisted.  If he was an officer, like my husband,
he was used to GIVING orders.  But the saving grace there is that I was
also an officer, so as fellow officers, we work collegially!  


>Denzil's cooking magazines and mail order catalogues clutter our
>countertops.  Orders of stainless steel kitchen gadgetry arrive at our
>doorstep weekly.  Our kitchen drawers overflow with an expanding
>collection of single-purpose instruments: stainless steel fish
>tweezers, a rubber-edged plastic tool for scraping chopped foods from
>the cutting board, a task I've always thought the palm of my hand
>quite capable of performing.  Our cupboards house a fleet of culinary
>power tools:  . . .  

Oh, my.  This is probably what I have to look forward to.  Well, it's
already happened, in part -- our storage shed is crammed not only with our
stuff, but with all sorts of dishes and bowls and glassware and other
food-related items; the third bedroom is piled high with appliances and
equipment, and a bookcase posing as a pantry . . .  Elizabeth!

She's become quite the culinary diva, having catered both her best friend's
wedding (last year) and her sister's wedding (this year).  She really is a
good cook and is very into food.  Now her plans have gelled and she's
aiming at one goal:  to attend the CIA.

No, not the one in Langley, Virginia -- the one in Hyde Park, New York.
The Culinary Institute of America.  Her timeframe is to get in there within
a couple years.  She has to work and pay off some debts first, and get some
experience.  You have to have at least 6 months food-service experience,
and they don't mean in places where you say "Do you want fries with that?"
They mean working with FRESH ingredients, thank you.    

So we're behind her 100% in this.  We think it's great.  But that quoted
paragraph haunts me . . .  

Veloci--my kitchen is so tiny--raptor


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