If anybody showed up for the class today, they would find a note on the door:

Instructor kidnapped for marriage come hell, high water, or Christmas chickens. Enjoy your holidays.

Hannibal wasn't up front when people came in today; instead he was at a table, setting out food ( Read more... )

"So, we've covered the five basic tastes," Hannibal said. "However, what we have not actually covered yet is flavor." He smiled. "Flavor is the interaction of taste and smell. Smell is thus incredibly important to our experience of food.

He brought out two plates of white cubes of food, and grinned. "So. One of these is pommes and the other pommes ( Read more... )

If anybody showed up for class today, they would find a note on the door:

It seems everybody could use a distraction this week. There is a party in the park; I'll have food there. See you next week otherwise.
- H. Lecter

"Welcome, everybody." Hannibal waved them at a rather full table to one side. "Please, feel free once the lecture portion of class is over to help yourselves to leftovers from my Halloween party." Which had not, after all, been a reception. "Take some home with you as well, if you like ( Read more... )

Hannibal nodded at everybody as they sat down. "My apologies, but I've been somewhat preoccupied with the wedding reception for Monday. I attempted to check with my notes from the previous class, but it would seem that the last I taught this, it was finance." Thank you, Fandom.

"So, I thought that today we would instead watch a film appropriate ( Read more... )

"Welcome back," Hannibal said to everybody, smiling. "I hope you all enjoyed vacation. This week, we'll be working with and discussing salt. Throughout Earth at least, salt is the most widely-used ingredient in food. It is also one of the oldest. Long before refrigeration, salt curing was used to preserve foods. Salt pulls moisture from food and ( Read more... )

"Since we covered sweet foods our last week bar the movie," Hannibal said, "this week we will cover ( sour )

"Thank you to those of you who elected to come this evening," Hannibal said to them once everybody had arrived who was going to. "Given the arrival of off-island guests, I would hate to penalize anybody who is absent or distracted today, and so instead of a lecture and cooking, I give you a movieHe smiled. "And I'll be serving the same dishes as in ( Read more... )

"Today," Hannibal told the students when they'd arrived, "we'll be going over ( sweet foods )