Flippin' out

People say to me, "Big Daddy, why the sudden interest in the School Board elections? What's it to you?"

Well, it's like this. When I was in junior high in Cupertino in 1972, California had the best schools in the country.

I remember at Collins Junior High we had this huge kitchen classroom. Huge! Must have had a dozen complete kitchens in there. And everybody took cooking. Boys, girls, everybody.

I learned how to make all kinds of stuff.

Back in those days, schools really prepared you to be a productive adult. Oh yeah. Those were heady times in Cupertino. A gangly teenager named Steve Wozniak was tinkering around with what would become the first personal computer, and I was perfecting my raspberry snickerdoodles.

Oh yeah. The remarkable achievements of my life have been no accident. It's because of my solid educational background that I would one day be known as "the Steve Wozniak of granola."

But young people today they just don't seem to have the same life skills.

Take Jeffrey, for instance. I convinced him to buy this cast iron skillet over a year ago, after he won this gift certificate at Sur la Table. He never even seasoned it. Oh man! It looked like something that got shot off the Graf Spree in the Battle of River Plate.

So I was dropping him off home Sunday after Big Pink House Country Breakfast, and I took the skillet home and seasoned it for him.

Just keeping working on that technique, Jeffrey.

Kurt "big daddy" True
5 october 2006