Having aided JJ Gonson from
Cuisine En Locale in the past, when I heard about JJ's next
O.N.C.E. one month ago, I knew I had to take part. JJ's
O.N.C.E.'s, or One Night Culinary Events, are multi-course meals held on short notice sporadically throughout the year, and include as much locally sourced food as possible.
However, this was not like any other O.N.C.E. It was not going to be just once. Three nights, 10-courses, full with actors, dancers, music, and script: a culinary, theatrical, and musical interpretation of Dante's
Inferno. Welcome to
Dante's
Inferno is the first of three parts of Dante Alighieri's allegorical work,
The Divine Comedy. This poem describes Dante's journey through Hell (
Inferno), Purgatory (
Purgatorio), and Heaven (
Paradiso). The great Roman poet Virgil is Dante's first guide, and it would be he who would lead guests through
Inferno and the 9 Circles of Hell, in what would be a magnificent production.
Weeks of work were put into the event, from all aspects of production and people of all talents. As a part of the kitchen crew last Tuesday, I was led by the three chefs of the show:
JJ Gonson,
Trevor Smith, and also
Jennifer Ede, who did an amazing job communicating between the kitchen crew and the servers. The kitchen work involved some very intense chopping, cooking, dishwashing, and plating to serve approximately sixty people, and the work could not have been done without the contribution of many other
Cuisine En Locale volunteers. Because of the intensity of the work, the time flew by. And before I knew it, we were already plating the tenth course, Heaven.
1 comment:
Annabelle- you were so helpful and I can never thank you enough!
Happy hollerdaze!~ xo J
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