On Jan 29, 11:31*am, aem > wrote:
> On Jan 27, 8:07*pm, wrote:
>
> > If you want to get rave reviews on any soup you make, the first
> > element is to make sure your loved one first has a long, steady diet
> > of military food. Here's our story: * [snip the story]
>
> I have a different story. *Military service is where I learned how
> important cooking skills are. *On a large army post with many mess
> halls every one had the same supplies and the same master menus, yet
> one mess hall served great, tasty, well-prepared food that satisfied
> every nutritional and aesthetic need while other nearby mess halls
> served slop. *The difference was entirely attributable to how good/
> attentive/skillful/caring the cooks were. * *-aem

Amen, brother! Forty-three years ago I was a young, single enlisted
man living in a barracks at Fort Dix. Too broke to eat at the service
club or snack bar more than once a week. I remember walking over a
mile out of my way, sometimes in pretty miserable weather, to eat in a
consolidated mess hall to avoid the slop served at my unit. Same
food, same menu, entirely different skill set.

Regards,
Sarge