March 31, 2008
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Spring Cooking Class At Millennium
Quick post: on Sunday, Jennconspiracy and I went to the Millennium Spring cooking class '08. I won't go too much into it here, save to post a link to Albion Cooks, a blog written by a fellow student in the class who had her camera and took copious notes.
Note to self: if I go again in May, I will need to sleep more the previous night. It was seriously tiring. It was a great experience and we did a whole heckuvua lot of cooking, were given lots of information, and had tons of practical, hands-on experience in the kitchen of the restaurant itself.
To quote from Albion Cooks:
The great thing about the Millennium classes is that the focus is not on following a specific recipe, but rather on learning how to cook, adjust, fix, embellish on the fly using creativity, knowledge, and technique. You learn better ways to prep and cut vegetables and are introduced to new ingredients and methodologies that really work.
Comments (4)
sounds like fun!
a question about your latest reading: is the Dark Materials series any good? I haven't been been terribly interested in standard fantasy in quite a while, but was curious to know if that series was any good, or just notorious.
It's decent so far. The first book was subtle in many ways about the underlying adult tensions and concerns. The second book is less subtle (for all it's called The Subtle Knife), but I'm still early in the book. Also, as the books deal with a quantum universe where similar parallel universes are adjacent to one another, and in the second book, a protagonist from a world much more like ours is introduced, I'm thinking that this is changing the tone from subtlety to more overt parallels and concepts. We'll see if he can keep up some nuances with this framework. The plot is certainly interesting enough. Audience-wise, while the first book I feel had some broader appeal, this second book is more reminiscent of the Madeline L'Engle books I used to love (A Wrinkle in Time/The Wind in the Door). That's not a bad thing, but I've had to readjust some of my expectations.
hmm.
Latest story I've watched that tried to tackle the parallel universe/causality issue was the anime Noir. The Sci-Fi Channel ran it in the last year, rerunning it intermittantly now. Not a bad series. Interesting take, in that it looked at it from the perspective, not just of multiple futures resulting from a single present, but the possibility of multiple pasts. Some possible from the "current" moment, others not.
Much of what I like about anime over much of western sci-fi handling though, is really the focus on interesting characters over concept. Heinlein was one of the only western writers of sci-fi who seemed to understand that. Fantasy writers often seem to be more in touch with their characters in the west for some reason, never understood why.
Let me know if you think your series is worth reading when you're done.
Can't wait to see your new kitchen techniques!
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