Good News and Bad News

We will be back at the South Campus next week. It's a more pleasant environment, both inside and out. Apparently there's a plan afoot to move more of the classes southward. I like it better. The commute's about four blocks longer but the parking is free.

But sadly, Chef Stazi was absent today. Apparently he and his Harley Davidson had a run-in with a car door and injury ensued. So we're unlikely to see him again, unless he ends up teaching us Culinary Management in about three months.

Chef Larry, dean of Academics, was the substitute. We took our daily quiz and had a couple of presentations, then saw a video about Ketel One vodka, and did a spirits tasting. Hard to be excited about whiskey at 8:45 in the morning. We tasted Johnnie Walker Red Label, Jim Beam, Jack Daniels, and Hennessey. Though they're all different (Scotch whisky, Kentucky bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, and Cognac), they are similar in quality so we didn't get any sense of what "the good stuff" is all about. And Chef Larry is not, by his own admission, a whiskey man, so he didn't really present the spirits with any degree of enthusiasm. In fact, he said they'd all go better with Coke. There's something wrong with that.

After break, we joined the Asian Cuisine class for a food and wine tasting. They'd prepared about a dozen different dishes and we "brought" four wines. A delicious buffet lunch, and then we cleaned up the glassware, and headed home to study for tomorrow's final.