Cooking with the chefs at Stratford U

As you know, getting behind the scenes to see and learn what goes on behind closed doors has been the theme of my tours for 30 plus years. 

So, today I made blackened tilipia, strawberry and kiwi salsa and almond barley, and it is delicious. I have been cooking with the chefs for months, and will do so again on Thursday. Twice in one week!  I confess today's menu is outstanding.  I made certain to sign up so I'd cook it again and again.  Today is the third time for blackened tilipia.  And when I backed my car into its space in front of my house, my neighbor was arriving home.  Lucky girl!  6 servings is too much for me, so I gave her and her husband their dinner. You know today's menu.

It's like this:  you sit at a restaurant table and behind nearby doors that are carefully closed, things are happening that result in a plate of food being placed in front of you.  I want to know, to see, who is behind those doors.  What does he do to produce that dish? So I've asked to go into the kitchen in some pretty swanky restaurants.  Would you do that?  Probably not.  I don't like to watch cooking shows on Television, in-person is better.

Zippy

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"Hairspray" in the Southern-most place in the world

He and his wife were driving through Baltimore yesterday, stopped for lunch, and on a whim searched for "Hairspray" on line and found my name and phone number.  I do a "Hairspray" tour in Baltimore, (among dozens of other fabulous forays in the city.)  

Half an hour after his call, I met him at Sip n Bite and learned that he is from Gore, New Zealand. He and his wife are spending 6 weeks in the states visiting their son and daughter-in-law who live in PA.  Back home in New Zealand, he is part of a little theater group and will play the part of Edna, the mother of Tracey Turnblad, in John Waters' movie and stage play.  He is not an actor by profession but rather a builder, and acts for fun. He invited me to come to NZ in August 2015 and attend the performance for what will be the Southern-most performance of the play. 

Back in the 1980's when I was deep in research on local history, I could not have forseen that I would spend a couple hours with a man from New Zealand who is playing a woman in John Waters' story: "Hairspray."       Zippy

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