Calling all Cooks

I just noticed that from that last post it appears you would be writing and cooking with Kim Cattrall- sorry it is just me- Carol Porter, but I hope this next post makes it up to you.
What follows is the e-mail I sent out today to the first ten names I drew from the Taste of Home Cooking School spinning bin. Not all had e-mail addresses, but the ten that did got the following e-mail from me. If you are foodie enough to read this blog, I open up the letter to you also. Read it and then cut and paste the questions into an e-mail. Answer the ones you want and send me the answers to cporter@courier-herald.com. Just read it-You'll get it. Bonne ecrit! ( I am sure that is poor French, but good writing!!!)

Dear Food Lovers,
This e-mail is from Carol Dodd Porter. I am the General Manager and one of the owners of Your Courier Herald in Dublin, Georgia. First of all, a big thank you for coming to our cooking school. I hope you all had as much fun as I did!
Today I drew ten e-mail addresses from the pile of yellow slips of paper that were turned in from Your Courier Herald Taste of Home Cooking School. Your name was one of the ten drawn. I think I was supposed to ask you to subscribe, but I had a better idea. Why not do an e-mail Question and Answer Interview on local cooking lifestyles? This way we get to keep having cooking fun all year and we will have more local cooking articles in the newspaper.

And if you complete these answers you will be added to a drawing for $100 and your photo and recipes could be featured in our next year’s cooking special section. If this works, out I will also publish them in the newspaper!

As I get your answers, I will put them on my new cooking blog. The blog is a way for our community to share cooking ideas. To find it ( I just started it today) go to www.courier-herald.com and click on Your Courier Herald Cooks. Of course there will be no interviews up yet as you are the first ten I have drawn. ( I am sending my mother, Louise Dodd, one also.)
I plan for this to work in much the same way as we conduct the Outdoor Interviews with the Sportsmen in our area that we run in Wednesday’s edition of the newspaper.
If you want, please answer the following questions and send them back to me. You can hit the reply button and type your answers in under each question. You don’t have to answer them all if they don’t apply to you, but I do need you to include at least two recipes.
If you have any questions I will be glad to answer them. You can even call me if you need, at 272-5522. Thank you so much again for coming to the cooking school and I hope to be reading your answers soon. I know Laurens County is full of terrific cooks!!!

Sincerely,
Carol Porter




Answer at least two of the first six questions. (Two recipes at least)!

1. What is your favorite recipe? Share it.
2. Which dish do you always get raves over? Share it.
3. What is your favorite cookbook and why? Share a recipe from it.
4. Can you imitate a restaurant dish? If so, share the recipe.
5. Call a good friend. Who is she and what is her favorite recipe? Share it.
6. What passed-down family recipe is your favorite? Share it.

Then answer at least 8 or more of the rest (and always answer #20.)

1. What cook taught you the most about cooking and give an example?
2. Who is your favorite media food star and why?
3. What is your biggest time saver in the kitchen?
4. What is your favorite comfort food?
5. If you eat at a restaurant, what do you order?
6. If you are having a party what do you always cook?
7. What was the first thing you ever cooked?
8. Do you cook all at once or work ahead? Give an example.
9. What is your favorite short-cut from the grocery store?
10. What store-bought item do you use that is closest to homemade?
11. What is your family's favorite home-cooked dish?
12. What is your biggest extravagance at the grocery store?
13. What is your favorite seasonal produce and how do you use it?
14. What recipe do you make low-cal that still tastes good?
15. What ingredient do you love to use the most?
16. What is your favorite cooking gadget? Why?
17. What and where is the best food you have ever eaten?
18. What tricks do you use to ease clean up?
19. If you cook do you also clean up? If not you, who?
20. Write a short 3 sentence biography of yourself?

Thank you for answering and send them on to me at cporter@courier-herald.com or call if you have any problems or questions at 478-272-5522. Thanks again, Carol Porter