[Magdalen] Mike & Everett face a demon.

[Scott Knitter]

We recently had a visitor from the UK on his first US visit. He laughed heartily when we ordered Chinese food and it arrived in the typical white boxes. He thought that happened only in sitcoms, or only in NYC or something. Roger, how is Chinese takeaway food packaged in the UK?

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> On Jan 10, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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