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« In fear of faux pas | Main | TV dinner » Thursday, October 19, 2006Supermarket cooking school
My daughter is calling from Shaw's supermarket. I'm at my desk and she's standing in front of the Asian products. "What was it I needed for peanut sauce?" she's asking. This is several days after an earlier conversation when I found a sauce in Nina Simonds' "Asian Noodles" and read it to her over the phone. Of course, she had been in the car at the time, and wrote nothing down. Nor had she made the sauce that night. "Hoisin sauce," I say, after racking my memory. "They don't have it," she says. I can hear her walking around and others in the store talking. "Well, give me a minute and I'll find another recipe. Or you could go over to Super 88." "No, that's too far. How about this bottle of Thai peanut sauce? Will that work?" she asks. I'm busy, she's impatient. But this is how young people are learning to cook these days. It begins with a phone call -- often from the supermarket. I sigh, she signs off, and the bottled product wins the day. Posted by Alison Arnett at 03:44 PM
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