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Voice Mail
"Allo, c'est Colette. Laissez-moi un message au signal, s'il vous plait.
If you do not speak French, this is Colette's phone. Please leave a message -- and learn French. Au revoir!"
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Office Hours, 11/05
Colette actually remembered she had an office this week.
Granted, this was largely because her cookbooks lived there and she needed to study for the class on pastries on Tuesday. But she was there with the door open if anyone needed her help.
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Office Hours, Saturday, 10/3
Colette wasn't sure work on a Saturday was in her contract, but she didn't want to miss any parents. She'd fill the time working on the Ratatouille cookbook with Remy on the other end of a webcam connection.
... In other words, she was talking recipes with a rat. No: Arguing recipes with a rat ( Read more... ) -
Office Hours, Friday, 10/02
Colette wasn't sure if parents would be on campus early enough to catch her in the office, but she was prepared for them anyhow. This meant she had her chef jacket at hand and a few simple snacks in her office fridge ( Read more... ) -
Office Hours | Thursday | 9.10
Colette had decided the coffeemaker in the teacher lounge had been specifically engineered to make only inedible coffee. Possibly it was part of an agreement with the Perk to force teachers there; she wasn't sure ( Read more... ) -
Ratatouille Offices, Paris, Friday Morning
Colette sat before the pile of paperwork on her desk and rubbed her eyes. There was the bill from the produce company, the bill from the dairy, payroll, invitations for Linguini and Remy to appear on cooking programs, bills from the contractor they'd hired to modify the kitchen for Remy's use ( Read more... ) -
Colette Info Post + Syllabus
Colette Tatou was, as she tells us in Ratatouille, "the toughest cook" in famed chef Auguste Gusteau's kitchen. She worked incredibly hard in what she sees as the sexist world of haute cuisine to get to that position. Viewing cooking as a form of art, she is meticulous about technique and ingredients. However, she lacks the spark of imagination ( Read more... )