A culinary theology
In this, their latest production, the Old Trouts creep trembling into the Great Kitchen of Heaven, to investigate its secrets and reveal therein the fundamental truths of existence. They plunge headlong into the stock pot and sing hallelujahs to the feast before us, illuminating no less than the very breath of the world, the spiritus mundi, the eternal and constant miracle of creation.
The Old Trouts summon the ghost of Antonin Carême, Le Cuisinier des rois et le Roi des cuisiniers, grandfather of classical French cuisine. Left alone as a child at the gates of revolutionary Paris, he found apprenticeship at the humble restaurant of an un-named Chef who taught him the mysteries of transcendental cuisine. Who was the un-named chef? And what did he teach the grubby urchin who became the greatest cook in the world?
This is no ordinary puppet-show about cooking and the French Revolution. It’s the first congregation of the Church of the Un-named Chef.
Premiered: January 28 to February 21, 2004 at the High Performance Rodeo, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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