Editorial/Op
Cooking Lessons
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Cooking in Central, our city’s largest charitable event, is May 10th & 11th, a little over a month away. Mia and I have gotten progressively more involved in this event each year, and I’m betting that more than a few of you have gotten caught up in Cooking the same way. This is the start of a crafty little recruiting process that I call “Cooking Lessons.”
What starts off the first year as a casual drop-in to check out this new “cook-off” event, progresses over the years to participating in the silent auction, and suddenly finding yourself hauling food around or setting up tents, tables and chairs. Then you find out that the event doesn’t just magically appear, but that there are meetings and work going on pretty much all year long. And now you have come to expect an email every month letting you know when the next planning meeting will be.
The community support for Cooking in Central is amazing. If you are one of the thousands who simply take some time Friday night to come out for Crawfish and fellowship, or Saturday for all of the fun, music, auctions and great food, you MAKE Cooking in Central a success. Here are some things I have learned in seven years of “Cooking Lessons”.
- Central may be the most generous community in America.
- These people really know how to cook.
- It takes 363 days to plan and execute a two-day event. (364 in leap year)
- These cooks are SO GOOD that cows, pigs and chickens actually line up and volunteer to participate.
- People travel over 1,000 miles to come to this event.
- There must be 100 BBQ pit trailers in Central, and some of them are big enough to double as campers.
- There is no such thing as politics at Cooking in Central.
- Central has talented kids. They can sing, dance, cheer, AND make their parents peel their crawfish.
- Central Leadership for Tomorrow knows how to entertain kids with games and inflatables.
- Central is the greatest place on earth to live and raise a family, and Cooking in Central just makes it greater.
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