[Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.

[Roger Stokes]

On 10/01/2016 23:01, Scott Knitter wrote:
> I still find it difficult to think about cooking in time for it to
> happen. So meal planning and shopping aren't well done. We dine out
> and order in far too much. I can see Suze Orman pointing to that as
> exhibit 1 in our shameful list of ways we're wasting money. She's
> right. The thing is, with a good recipe, I can cook quite decently.
> And so can my dear partner whose career in the hospitality industry
> pains him so much (nightmares about working in the pastry department
> at the University Club, mainly).

I can understand his nightmares because it's so fiddly and not an 
essential part of basic cooking.  Hours to do and moments on the plate 
and in the mouth.  I believe also that the pastry department was in a 
separate room cut off from the rest of the kitchen because it needed to 
be cool.  My other observation is that eating out seems to be a lot more 
common in the US than it is over here.

Roger