Re: [Leica] It's all pots and pans now...

[Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>]

Chandos

All those goodies to be used with, for and on an AGA Range.

Jerry

Chandos Michael Brown wrote:

> I was at a party like this once, at least I think I was.  I don’t
> entirely remember.
>
> As a longtime cooking fetishist (I rented a U-haul and drove to New
> Jersey to fetch back my late 60s vintage six-burner, double oven Crown
> Empress range), I can say this: the most “fantastic” set of cookware
> that you can dangle from you pot rack will reflect your deep
> understanding of the unique properties of each sort of material and its
> specific application to various cooking processes.  So, you’ll have an
> array of hand-hammered copper sauciers and sauce pans of different
> capacities and heights (to control the loss of liquid in simmering),
> you’ll have sautéuse and sauté pans of copper, steel, iron, and
> non-stick; you’ll have a variety of enamelware (of the La Creuset type),
> and this is only what inebriated Luggers will *see*, because what you’ll
> really have are cardboard boxes, cabinets, racks, drawers, and trunks
> full of baking sheets, molds, fish cookers, bain maries, bundt pans,
> spring-form pans, egg coddlers, roasting racks, trussing needles,
> basters, skewers, spits, and the Lord what else, and only YOU will
> visualize all this in your mind’s eye.
>
> And we ain’t even got to appliances, woks, steamers, hand-cranked
> shredders, mandolins and slow cookers yet, not to mention knives,
> cleavers, sharpening irons, and meat saws.
>
> Ah, le batterie de cuisine, so much stuff to covet, so little time
> actually to use it.
>
> Only sissies buy “sets” of anything, except, perhaps, of steak knives.
>
> Chandos
>
>
>
> Chandos Michael Brown
> History and American Studies
> College of William and Mary
> www.wm.edu/cas/asp/faculty/brown
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Kyle
> Cassidy
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:56 PM
> To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
> Subject: [Leica] It's all pots and pans now...
>
> So..... Let's say I was to have some luggers over for dinner. "What a
> wonderful hat!"  Someone remarks at my Tilley, perched atop my hat rack.
> Everyone photographs it. My dog walks through the kitchen, someone
> remarks
> "Well! A Brittny! Fancy that! Feisty little pointer!" to which someone
> else
> enviously adds "What a lovely breed of upland bird dog! Fine, fine
> animal!"
> Shutters whirr and click. After seven or eight glasses of Chivas
> Brothers
> Royal Salute 50 year old scotch (mmmm!) someone suggests that we go
> outside
> and shoot a bunch of the empty scotch bottles with my very impressive
> Browning Citori over-and-under shotguns. We photograph one another
> firing
> guns and blasting bottles off of one anothers heads. When we can barely
> stand and one or two of us have been winged by stray pellets, we retire
> to
> the house and stack our cameras on the kitchen table. "Holy crikies!"
> says
> one of the luggers, stumbling over my 200 year old Hammadan hand knotted
> Persian rug, and collapsing to the floor like a bag of sod and
> pinecones. He
> staggers to his feet, pulling the elegant Madeira hand embroydered
> Portugese
> tablecloth with him (Leica's clatter and scatter everywhere, but we
> really
> don't care by now). "You have," he teeters back and someone almost
> catches
> him, but instead, now off balance, crashes into the stove, knocking my
> Kitchen-Aid mixer into the sink, "you have," says the first lugger,
> staggering to his feet, "the most excellent set of pots and pans!" He
> points
> vaguely at my iron pot rack which seems to be swinging from the ceiling.
> Or
> maybe the floor is rocking. "Yeah!" chimes in a third lugger,
> accidentally
> firing the shotgun into the floor, blasting my Bosh rotary hammer drill
> to
> bits and slightly injuring my dog, "what kind of pots and pans are
> those?
> They're FANTASTIC!"
>
> "Well," I say proudly, "they're__________________."
>
> Kyle "outfitting his kitchen" Cassidy
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