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After my doctor's appointment on Friday, I had a little time before heading home and stopped by Border's Books. I have long wanted a copy of The Baker's Apprentice, so I picked it out, sat down at the cafe' in the store, and started to leaf through it. I held the book carefully so as not to crack the spine, and the cover was clearly visible to anyone walking by.

Twice in the space of half an hour, I had two women come up to me and start a conversation with, "Oh, I love the smell of baking bread." The first was cursory; maybe she saw my wedding ring or something. The second, a cute girl, 20-something with brown hair past her shoulders and red, librarian-fetish glasses, stayed long enough that I could probably have asked for her phone number, ring or no. We talked almost entirely about making bread: about cheap curing baskets and how to fake a couche (doesn't that just sound dirty in French?) and the different kinds of bread we liked. Eventually, I had to excuse myself and actually buy the book, and she smiled at me it a funny, sad kind of way as I left.

Date: 2008-01-13 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abostick59.livejournal.com
Clearly I need to move back to Seattle.

"The Baker's Apprentice"?

Date: 2008-01-13 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pandakahn.livejournal.com
Wow, that got my biases and bigotry showing fast!

Baker's apprentice? (insert rude noise here.)

Now, "The Saucier's Apprentice." that is a book worth reading! Anyone can bake, but only a few of us chosen few can truly master the great sauces.

MPK

Re: "The Baker's Apprentice"?

Date: 2008-01-15 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendor.livejournal.com
"The Saucier's Apprentice"... Isn't Mickey Mouse in that one?

Re: "The Baker's Apprentice"?

Date: 2008-01-15 02:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pandakahn.livejournal.com
nnnnnoooooooooo....

I am dieing here!!!

funny, didn't see that one coming at all!

MPK

Re: "The Baker's Apprentice"?

Date: 2008-01-15 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elfs.livejournal.com
The saucier's apprentice was the guy who got killed with a spear in Apocalypse Now. "All I wanted to do was learn how to cook, man! All I wanted to learn how to do is cook!"

Hmm. "Saucy-er's Apprentice." I so see a porn film.

Date: 2008-01-14 11:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meisjedegaze.livejournal.com
Sounds like a great book, and a couple of great conversations were started with it. :)

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