Week 13

My euro class is going well. We are all getting a little fed up with the teacher, but for the most part everyone is going fine. We cooked our way through Spain, and Italy this week and for the most part everything was good. Spain food is not really my thing, so it was a lot of empanadas and random fish bits. We got in suckling pig and were going to roast them whole, which is really really yummy, but the pigs were rotten. It was sad that the little baby pigs died for no good reason and ended up in the trash. What a shame.

Besides the pigs going to waste we have been bombarded with the history of each of the countries that we have been talking about over the last two weeks. Long lectures, with lots of misinformation. Our chef lived in Europe in the 1980’s and he still thinks Europe is in the 80’s. He announced in class that everyone in the basque region of Spain wears a beret. Victoria and I just giggled in the back row, and could count on one hand the number of berets we saw in the basque region. We think they were big in the 80’s, and he didn’t get the fashion memo.

Everyone at school is getting a little stir crazy, like the weeks leading up to Christmas break. Everyone is getting on everyone elses nerves, and we are all ready for the week break after this class. The school holds a conference every year called “The world of Flavors”. It’s a big deal in the industry, and we get the week off of school for it, and can volunteer if we want to. This year’s the theme is asia, so it should be really fun. Morimoto of Iron Chef, on the food channel is coming, as is Martin Yan from PBS, as well as every other famous Asian chef that I should know, but don’t. It should be fun to meet them all. The best part about the conference is that it starts on Wednesday, so I get to go home Sun-Tuesday ☺ I’m too excited to see mom and dad, and have lunch with Barbara!

Since there has not been a photo in a while, here is a photo of David, Victoria, Joel, and myself in San Francisco Saturday Night. Victoria, Joel and I spent the day in the city and David met us for dinner. The restaurant had this sign on the front window, and we were al a little confused by it, although it was an Asian restaurant and there was no cheese. Enjoy the photos. ☺