Claire Gulliver #03 - Intrigue in Italics by Gayle Wigglesworth

Author:Gayle Wigglesworth [Wigglesworth, Gayle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cozy mystery
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

With all of them in the kitchen at one time it seemed to be too many people. It wasn’t only their class of fifteen and Chef Martin, Sal and Wanda, but Chef Geno and even Marie Verde were in attendance today. Sal and Wanda had prepared three different work stations for the demonstrations this morning. Using the first, Chef Martin had demonstrated the basics of pasta. He had produced a fresh marinara sauce, which he then modified to make several different sauces from the same base. He then put together an egg pasta dough which he used to make linguine, bowties and even rigatoni, using a pasta machine to press out the tubes. The participants were amazed at the variety of dishes he produced from the same basic ingredients.

Now, at the second work station, Chef Geno was making gnocchi which he was going to use with the pesto sauce he had already made out of the beautiful basil they had seen growing in the garden.

Millie moved to the side to get a better view of what he was doing.

“Now remember, quick and gentle to make tender gnocchi.” His hands worked quickly, mixing the flour and egg into the mashed boiled potatoes. Then he turned the dough onto the board to quickly form ropes of dough before cutting each rope into little pieces.

It looked so easy while he was doing it. Randy winked at her. He had told her earlier he had never had any luck making edible gnocchi. Tough and gluey was his description. She knew he was planning to try again while the experts were in attendance during their hands-on session this afternoon.

As she watched, LiAnn slithered through the bodies, managing to squeeze in front of Frederick and Helga, who stood at the very front intent on the process Chef Geno was using to mark his gnocchi with a pattern. Surprised to find LiAnn suddenly standing in front of them, they smiled graciously, stepping back a bit to give her room to see. Millie thought about George’s complaint of LiAnn while on their walk. He was right, LiAnn was always roaming around. Earlier Millie had noticed her flitting about the other work stations while the rest of them clustered close to Chef Martin in order to hear his every word. And while she had no idea where LiAnn had been during this demonstration, it was clear she now wanted to be in the front row.

Millie realized, with a pang of guilt at having judged LiAnn: well, of course she wanted to be in the front row. As tiny as she was she wouldn’t be able to see anything over the heads of the others, especially since they were all wearing their big droopy hats. And no wonder she roamed about so much, she probably got claustrophobic being closed in a group by the larger, taller people. She told herself she needed to be a kinder person, but then she forgot about LiAnn as Chef Geno offered them each a bite of his delicious gnocchi and pesto.

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