[Magdalen] Wafting Odors.

[Jay Weigel]

My first husband was a chef. Not a nice person, but a helluva cook. He was
just getting started when we were together, and was very creative. I have
memories of him doing something really good with duck that started on a
rotisserie over the grill and later involved cherry preserves and red wine.
Probably started my lifelong love of that bird. Alas, do not get to fix it
often. And husband #1 and I parted ways after a short and violent marriage.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dave your post brings back childhood memories of sometimes Sundays when my
> dad who loved food but rarely "cooked" would get a "wild hair" and begin
> creating a meal early in the afternoon. Often these meals were incredibly
> delicious but he could never recreate them as he never took notes and was
> often drinking throughout the afternoon. My memories also include the
> copious amount of dish washing and clean up I had to do after dinners on
> those rare evenings - all in all lovely memories of a wonderful father who
> died at an early age - 53 when I was 22. He was also very intrigued with
> outdoor grilling- the mechanical Engineer in him always devising new ways
> to approach some of his grilled Sunday afternoon concoctions. Thanks for
> the memories this morning.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Oct 25, 2015, at 12:50 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> It must be a Sunday thing here in the woods of Pennsylvania, but
> there is a heavy odor of charcoal of the type used for barbeques
> in the air.  The weather is overcast, but comfortable  outside at 57 F (14
> C).
>
> I am reminded that because my father and most of his friends
> were born in the second half of the nineteenth century (father: 1880)
> I missed out on several developments in home cookery.
>
> I thus take after my father in that I do not cook at all with the
> exception
> of the simple breakfast stuff.  I NEVER saw my father in our  kitchen
> except to sit down at the breakfast "nook" for a meal.  Men of  that
> generation simply did not cook, period.  Never mind that the
> great international cooks in both European and Asian traditions were
> largely male.  Men, at least of that ilk, did not cook at home.
>
> There was also not a barbeque phase in that generation, and I have
> never been a barbequer either, of the type where the husband in
> the family ruled the Weber Grills.
>
> The current phase, where men are often cooking and baking is
> obviously not what's happening here.
>
> However, I love to watch the cooking shows on the "Create" Channel
> of PBS.  If Martha says it's so, IT'S SO!
>
>
>
>
> David Strang.
>