South Korea Influence Scandal, Thanksgiving Cooking, Scaling Recipes
South Korean President Park Geun-hye issues an apology for an influence-peddling scandal involving a close confidante. Adam Curry shares his plans to cook for 20 families at the Ronald McDonald House for Thanksgiving. Dvorak offers advice on the difficulties of scaling recipes from small groups to large crowds, noting that cooking does not scale linearly.
south korea· park geun-hye· thanksgiving· ronald mcdonald house· cooking
2:19:39 Okay Let's see. We've got I thought this was interesting the Korea is having a problem Yeah, if uncle Don even had to quote somewhere That it's like we said we all thought Park would be great and she turns out she sucks I think that's the direct code actually well It's not even that they've set her up I think and if you listen to this it sounds like the American politics If you just listened to or think of Clinton as you play this little clip influence peddling in Korea The besieged president of South Korea made an emotional apology today for an influence peddling scandal. It stems from allegations that Park Geun-hye led a close, confident meddle in state affairs on national television park called the scandal heartbreaking and said she accepts responsibility while denying some of the allegations. Sounds like something goes on here does it? Influence peddling I've gotten to the bottom of this
2:20:41 Well, you know I maybe damn. I wish it was going to Uncle Don's for Thanksgiving. You're not? No. Oh why not? You know Tina works at the Ronald McDonald house here in Austin as communications director and on holidays because the house operates 24-7 they have to divide up whose house manager and so yeah you can get Christmas you get New Year's she got Thanksgiving And so I'm gonna, we're going to hang out with the families of the house and have a Thanksgiving there. It'll be nice too. Oh that'd be great! Yeah. Don't forget Thanksgiving is show 880. Ooh! And um... We'll be working. And i'll be cooking on mass for you know, it depends how many families are there but they usually pretty full So I will need some cooking tips for a big crowd. Oh yeah that's different cooking for a big group is a lot different in fact There are special cookbooks
2:21:39 Because you just, cooking is not something that you can necessarily scale. No, it's true. You can't scale everything. Well you can and in fact that is why these cookbooks exist These are cookbooks designed for like guys in the army that have to cook for 50 people not 5 And you don't scale up necessarily one-to-one with everything It doesn't work There are a lot of reasons why it doesn't work but it just doesn't work So we have these special cookbooks so its very difficult to scale from five to 500, you know. Five to 500 is not scalable but you'll be able to help me I think i can yeah a little bit not a lot depends on well there's not that many people you're talking about what 15 20 people? No no that's 15 or 20 families oh yeah so that could easily be 50 people Oh yeah okay let me give it some thought hey potlets uh chili! I can make chili at scale