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October 22, 2005
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Anyone who eats with me knows why I like finger foods and dipping.
I can't handle my knives. Even the most basic slicing and dicing is beyond me. I've put more of myself into meals than most people would care to know.
I changed all that on Thursday. I am now the proud graduate of Knife Skills 1 at the Institute of Culinary Education. The last time I saw that many people wielding knives, it was outside my old school in Bushwick. I learned that I was holding knives wrong, slicing wrong, and dicing onions is easy.
Norman, the knife god, loves puns. He and I were bantering back and forth. He told us he was scoring the side of a chicken. "Six points." I responded with "Score? Shouldn't that be 20?"
I can now effortlessly slice anything from an onion to a watermelon. The only queasy moment for me was his demonstration of deboning a chicken, which reminded me of the sounds my knee made when it exploded in Uzbekistan.
I am SO taking Knife Skills 2. I heard it finishes with the finale of Michael Jackson's Beat It video.
Posted by G at October 22, 2005 09:30 PM
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I took basic cooking skills 1 and was amazed at the deboning of a chicken, (and we had SO many chickens to practice on). I realized the reason why I was dicing, chopping and scoring incorrectly. My mom had no freakin idea what SHE was doing. Then basic cooking skills was a revelation. I'd seen my father filet a fish so many times and refused to take part. Now it was my turn and it was beautiful.
Posted by: JwP at October 24, 2005 03:48 PM
Osh...ah, utensil-less osh! Who needs knives??
Posted by: Josie at October 25, 2005 05:22 PM
I smell something cooking..
..a dinner party!
Posted by: jase at October 26, 2005 02:44 PM