If you live long enough, words of your inexperienced youth will come back to haunt you. In a recent case, it was the words of a home economics college professor, writes retired former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Food editor Irene Wassell in Wednesday’s Food pages.
The final exam took the form of preparing a semi-formal company meal using china, silverware and fine table linens. Not unreasonable under normal circumstances, but the classroom kitchen was being repainted and was in complete disarray. “Unfair,” all we students protested, but she was quick with her admonishment: “Don’t think that you will always have ideal conditions under which to cook, even for company.”
At that moment, Wassell says, she vowed to never cook in a kitchen that was in chaos, and she would certainly would not invite guests. It was a recent remodeling project that served up a plateful of those youthful words. What started as a six-week project to redo the kitchen grew into a five-month ordeal, during which Wassell had not only guests but guests who stayed four days.
Read tomorrow's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.
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