Disorder by Martha Adele

Author:Martha Adele [Adele, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781796010640
Publisher: Xlibris US
Published: 2019-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

Mavis

The large white metal pot sits in front of us on the floor. It is the tallest pot I have ever seen. Even with it sitting on the floor, the top of it, with the lid on, comes up to my belly button.

Sarah, the food lady, comes over to Sam and me, who have just set the pot full of water on one of the metal plates in the corner of the room. Sarah reaches up and wipes the sweat off her forehead with her wrist. “Okay, so since it’s sitting on a burner, you want to be careful and maintain a safe distance because you will get burned if you touch it.”

Sam answers for both of us, “Got it.”

As I look around in the kitchen behind the cafeteria, I see a room much larger than I imagined. There are at least twenty different coolers, multiple sets of floor and stove-top burners, and many worktables. Sarah is the woman who was assigned to show us the ropes while everyone else in the kitchen goes about their business. Overall, Sam and I have received a lot of attention. Not in a bad way per se, but a lot of attention. In the kitchen, people have been congratulating us nonstop about making it through the woods and welcoming us to Bergland. Not that I have a problem with all the kindness—it’s just … I have never been a big fan of talking to people. Don’t get me wrong. I will be nice to you all day long and humor you and talk with you, but I won’t enjoy it.

Sarah scoots past us and twists the pot with its handles until it clicks into place. “Now we wait for the water to boil, just like we did with the pasta.” She looks back and forth from Sam to me. “Any questions for that?”

Sam and I shake our heads.

The three of us have just made three pots full of what Sarah calls “spaghetti” as our first lesson. Never before have I ever heard of spaghetti, seen any sort of pasta, nor made anything like that—hard food made soft by the hot water, made flavorful by the pasta sauce, and made ready to eat by the workers. The amazing scent that radiated from every end of the kitchen was one I had never experienced before nor an experience I wanted to stop enjoying.

The other members of the kitchen team continue to work on preparing the rest of the spaghetti for lunch while Sarah ushers us through the kitchen. “While we wait for the water to boil, I’m going to show you two how to shuck corn.”

Sam looks to me with an expression of surprise. “You guys have corn here?” he asks.

“Of course!” She rolls out a double-level cart stacked with boxes of corn. “We have a lot of foods you guys have, if that’s what you mean.”

Still confused, Sam crosses his arms. “What about the thing we ate the night we got here?” He quickly uncrosses his arms and waves his hands around to try to help him find the right words.

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