Wine Tasting Event
I
will never forget it was the spring semester of 2001 at Manchester Community
College (MCC) I was taking Advanced Broadcasting and our professor had us into
groups and I was in a group that was all about wanting to do our advertising
group project in Culinary Arts. You want to talk about someone who was eager to
do Culinary Arts? You didn't have to ask me twice, lol. Well, we had a chance
to meet the professor who was over the Culinary Arts department. I knew that I
wouldn't have a problem with Culinary Arts because I went to all of my friend’s
graduation 2 years ago for Food Service in Culinary Arts. Our job was to film
all that went on as the students were preparing to bake delicious chocolate
covered strawberries & different fruit tarts (yummy). A really friendly
female Food Service worker showed us all of the prepared desserts. What we
would do as a group, we would all keep in touch via telephone on the days or
evenings we could all meet on campus to prepare for a good 10 minute
advertising slogan that would sell not only to all of our classmates but to our
professor who taught Advanced Broadcasting as well.
Meanwhile,
coming up were events at MCC where Food Service would cater to the different
functions like a wine tasting party for example. Me & my group had to be
really careful because there were wine tasters and wine drinkers. Wine tasters were the
ones who could keep their cool. However, the wine drinkers tend to get out of
hand a little. For example, we filmed a woman who was dancing like crazy after
so many drinks (to music that didn't require dancing to it). The desserts were
prepared by the trays and the students & professors prepared them by simply
using flour, eggs, sugar, milk, fresh fruit, etc., to help make the wine
tasting party fun! Me and my group made sure to keep our distance from the wine
drinkers while we were filming because we didn't want our audience to be turned
off by our slogan (just being smart). I think what made it so much fun doing
our project is that we felt like we were in class and thinking about how we
wished we could make good food like this. Culinary Arts is like a class where
everyone works together as a team. I heard the term "you can help
yourself" repeatedly to the point I almost wanted the professors in
Culinary Arts to say okay "Here's y'all trays of desserts" but it
wouldn't matter because I met a blonde hair woman who was a wine drinker (you
wouldn't have believed it by the way she acted) told me to try some of the
tarts.
I
responded, "Oh, I'm alright."
The
woman answered, "But you have been working so hard filming take a load
off."
I
replied, "It’s okay." (Chuckling)
The
woman replied, "Now you are going to try these tarts and I don't want to
hear another word."
I
replied, "But Miss I'm full." (All smiles)
The
woman said, "You have been working hard and I've been to wine tasting
parties at schools like yours where students have worked hard like you do, most
of them not as nearly as hard as you and they all act the same way, so you have
these tarts as a snack!”
The
woman was making so much sense to me so I didn't argue with her and took tarts
for the road while I waited for my ride (my mom) to come and get me. Me and my
group all met at school the next day and took what we all filmed on camera and
edited it down to 10 minutes and our theme was entitled, "Eat It"
because that's what everyone in Food Service did, it was what our group did,
and what the people who came to the wine tasting party did to those delicious
tarts & chocolate covered strawberries. My group got an A for our project
and a standing ovation for a job well done!
Chocolate covered strawberries
Tarts
"Eat It!"
