Partnership Educators,
He wasn't always a master chef. In fact, he first became interested in cooking as a schoolboy. His brother was stricken with scarlet fever and so the mother was preoccupied. Being the one healthy boy, he began cooking the family meals. Mother would call out recipes from the sick room upstairs and he would follow them as best he could. Simple dishes at first, then more involved ones, and then eventually he was improvising within the recipes given. His vegetable soup was spectacularly seasoned. He had come up with precise sequences for adding vegetables that made the soup a better dish for all. His peach, apple, and cherry pies he called satisfactorily but everyone else said they were sumptuous. Before long even his schoolyard friends respected his destiny as a master chef. He always said that good food is no better than the matter in which it is prepared. As a young man, he attended a cooks and bakers school. But by then he might have taught the courses he took. His revolutionary concepts such as taking flower parts to certain recipes created quite a stir among his peers. Eventually, his culinary prowess was published in the newspapers.
When the master chef got married, his bride had no idea of his culinary expertise. She had warned him in fact that her own cooking ability began and ended with fudge. She had wondered why he had seemed so unconcerned. During the first months of marriage, she enrolled in a cooking course but soon dropped out. That is when our master chef smiled, stepped into the kitchen, and astonished his bride with all manner of delicious chicken, pork, and lamb. The seafood dishes were utterly amazing. He made a baked bean recipe for which he later became famous. He grilled and he fried and he boiled and he chilled and he sliced and diced right into his bride's heart.
I am sure that you have forgotten, if you ever knew, that this man was a master chef. Many of his recipes are followed to this day. Forgotten is also his skill at sewing. It was he who altered his wife's dresses. He did all of these things before he marched off to Europe to war and history. You see, the master chef became a general and then the President of the United States. You would know him as Dwight Eisenhower.
Enjoy your Presidents week off. I thank you all for being like President Eisenhower and his ability to do many different things well and serve his family and country. I know that many of you also have a wide variety of skills and are serving each other, the kids, and our community at the highest levels. Have a restful time off.
Let's all give a shout-out to Brittany Shafer for winning the Shasta County Counselor of the Year award. She is an amazing individual who makes a difference in all of our lives. Congratulations Brittany.
Rob