ACS 2008: Best moment
Aug. 4th, 2008 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gordonzolaMy favorite part of the conference? Going out to dinner* with a few folks including a local (Bay Area) cheesemaker. The restaurant had family style seating and we were seated next to a local chef. After claiming he could say “I love cheese” in any language, he started talking about the cheese plate they serve. He bragged about how he only bought from one exclusive distributor and how he knew the owner personally.
Playing Who’s-Who with cheese people to our group is like bragging about your knowledge of mastitis to a herd of factory-farmed cows. The cheese world is small and it is notable that this distributor, who the chef was so proud to know, was not attending the conference in his own city.
Our cheesemaker pulled out his card to hand to the chef. Chef looked honored. Then our cheesemaker said, “Next time you see (redacted), tell him to fucking pay me!” We then all detailed our negative experiences with the distributor.
The chef then changed the subject by asking if we didn’t agree it was fucked up that his new wife, sitting across from him at the table, went off her birth control pills without discussing it with him first,
We called for the check.
*The dinner was at Avec which pretty much ruled. I am craving more tallegio-stuffed foiacaccia already. Plus they were playing a homemade Clash mix CD.
Playing Who’s-Who with cheese people to our group is like bragging about your knowledge of mastitis to a herd of factory-farmed cows. The cheese world is small and it is notable that this distributor, who the chef was so proud to know, was not attending the conference in his own city.
Our cheesemaker pulled out his card to hand to the chef. Chef looked honored. Then our cheesemaker said, “Next time you see (redacted), tell him to fucking pay me!” We then all detailed our negative experiences with the distributor.
The chef then changed the subject by asking if we didn’t agree it was fucked up that his new wife, sitting across from him at the table, went off her birth control pills without discussing it with him first,
We called for the check.
*The dinner was at Avec which pretty much ruled. I am craving more tallegio-stuffed foiacaccia already. Plus they were playing a homemade Clash mix CD.
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Date: 2008-08-04 05:20 pm (UTC)I want to know who this is so I never eat their food.
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Date: 2008-08-04 06:19 pm (UTC)Avec
Date: 2008-08-04 06:26 pm (UTC)A few other moments, but this took the cake!
Avec was Great! The conversation was fun and it was the cheese place in Chicago!
See you soon,
Sheana D
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Date: 2008-08-04 06:46 pm (UTC)Playing Who’s-Who with cheese people to our group is like bragging about your knowledge of mastitis to a herd of factory-farmed cows.
I think this brilliant quote says it all and might just belong on your book cover.
And seriously. Check please!
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Date: 2008-08-05 02:00 am (UTC)Playing Who’s-Who with cheese people to our group is like bragging about your knowledge of mastiffs to a herd of factory-farmed cows.
...and I kept thinking, "Um, is the joke cows care about dog knowledge?...Knowledge of dog breed somehow equals knowledge of cow breeding?...I mean, *doesn't* equal knowledge of cow breeding...um...huh???"
I felt so uncool not getting the analogy.
Until I felt even less cool realizing I misread the line entirely and just spent minutes trying to unpuzzle it.
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