Friday's Feast

Appetizer: Name a trait you share with your parents or your children.
We all love games and puzzles of all kinds.

Soup: List 3 qualities of a good leader, in your opinion.
Honest, smart, compassionate.

Salad: Who is your favorite television chef?
Jacques Pépin, by a long shot. He's the real deal.

Main Course: Share a story about a gift you received from someone you love.
Recently Laura needed to order a bunch of books from Amazon, and the shipping rate to Mexico is outrageously high, so she asked if she could have them shipped to me, and then I could ship them to her via UPS (along with a few other things she needed from the States). So, no problem. But when the boxes arrived from Amazon, inside I found two books just for me, right off of my Wish List! She sent me an Alice Munro collection I'd missed, called Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, as well as a novel I'd only just heard about and added to my Wish List: The Best People in the World by Justin Tussing. And you know I love getting books! (Which reminds me, tomorrow's the last day of BAFAB week for this quarter! Go ahead, you know you want to!)

Dessert: How do you react under pressure?
I freak out a little bit inside, but my brain quickly shifts into logical, pragmatic mode, and I do what needs to be done. Then, afterward, I allow the freaking to commence in earnest, both inside and outside.

Comments

[scott]

"Honest, smart, compassionate."

George W. Bush fan, then, eh? ;)

"Jacques Pépin, by a long shot. He's the real deal."

I liked him too, but he was always a bit humorless for my tastes. I'll take Alton Brown. Or Rachael Ray.

[Karen]

Humorless, really? I think Pépin's delightful. You ought to read his autobiography. He's quite a guy.

Alton Brown and Rachael Ray aren't "real chefs," although I can see their appeal. The "real chefs" seem to gravitate to PBS; the "celebrity chefs" to the Food Network -- although there are notable exceptions (Mario Batali, Tyler Florence, etc.).

[scott]

I like Alton because he's such a nerd. if I had a cooking show it would be like that. Rachael is another matter. Real chef or not, her cooking style is so unpretentious. Plus she's hot. (Though she looked better when she wasn't quite so thin.)