June 28, 2003 - 1:14 a.m.
Yesterday I was searching through a recently remembered box of books to see what I should read next, when I stumbled accross one of the many memories that slip through the cracks of my mind. The Art Of Cooking, by Jacques Pepin was what held the memory, but it took a minute of flipping through pages too find it, shockingly captured in a photo and labelled for my convenience. I say shockingly because there are maybe two dozen pictures of me in existence, and those are all accounted for.
The photo was of Jacques and myself when I was 17, at a fund raiser for a then new battered women's shelter in CT that my Aunt had put together. She had asked me to decorate a cake for the event, since I was at the time in a baking program at a vocational high school. I remember she had led with the chance to meet the chef when asking me to do the event. I also remember thinking she had only needed to say it was for a battered women's shelter and resource center, since even then I would do anything in my power to help abused women or children. And there is always the part where I had no clue who Jacques Pepin was at the time.
There I was, in a chef's coat and checkered pants, smiling with the famous French chef for the camera. Forcing a smile, I recall, due to Mr. Pepin being not only stereopically aloof with fame, but just as stereotically French in personality. And, uhg, those eyes that didn't quite seem to be able to track together, that creeped me out. I shouldn't say bad things about him though, because as off-putting as his was as a person, he was doing a charity event for someting I really respect. Kudo's Jacques if you are still around.
If I could put lime in a bottle, while getting all hammered with you... of coconut I'd make that bottle, and shake it all up would we two...
Eventually I decided to read Alan Cole and Chris Bunch's The Far Kingdom's, because the main character's older sister is the leader of a military unit of lesbians, and the sequal, The Warrior's Tale, is all about her kicking Tale. I just finished the first book, and am on to the next one, liking a good piece of Tale myself...
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