Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-10-18 11:53 <=-

it is that he's not under pressure any more and can
indulge his perfectionism and cut things to the level
of evenness expected of an apprentice in a three-star
restaurant. There may be a touch of that dreaded
septuagenarian slowing down, too.

Makes a lot of sense... :)

But is still sort of sad - I remember Ian as a vigorous 50-odd, confident and with practice from cooking all the time. Now he
spends far too much time playing Battle Dragons or War Dragons
or something like that and far too little time in the kitchen.

Hmmmm... that is rather sad....

One winds down, and one can't blame Ian and Jacquie
for doing so pretty much on schedule.

True.

A distressing number of legends of the echo, as you call
them, are dead or missing.

I know. It does come with the territory....

Happens.

Yup.

was still fine, and she should use it on rolls baked for the
picnic...

I wonder if it had improved with the aging.

Not sure if it had improved, that would be hard to do... but it
certainly hadn't suffered by the aging... :)

Some things do improve with aging, even if they seem
perfect when new.

True. Having had Lydia's roll frostings many a time, I didn't really
notice any difference other than the flavoring being almond rather than vanilla... :)

I don't know how such things age. When making frosting
myself, it's been throw it together at the last minute
sort of thing.

That's generally Lydia's way of doing things, but she also sometimes
does have leftovers, since she always mixes up a generous amount of
frosting for the rolls... All I've noticed is that the older frosting is
likely to have a slight crust to the surface... which can be stirred
back into the frosting without notice... :)

I'm not convinced that sugar, fat, or even salt are that hazardous, at least within reasonable limits.... :)

And it's not as if we all were of a homogeneous
physiology. Some people tolerate heat better. Some
people tolerate salt better. Some people have blue eyes.

Indeed. :)

One of the touted benefits of ever-deepening levels
of analysis and scrutiny provided by increases in
computing power was to have been individualized
therapies. That has not come to pass - why? Could be
cost effectiveness, could be the resistance of the
medical community.

Or possibly that was lost sight of in the process of developing other
things along the way....

ttyl neb

... Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work naked.

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