Meal Review.
Twenty-nine members and, perhaps fortunately, no guests shared a meal last week. The great thing about the meals we get at Rotary is that every meal tells a story, although many of these stories aren’t true.
We exist as a collection of atoms, and we are continually exchanging these atoms with the world around us. Every time we breath we exchange atoms with our environment. When we eat other animals, their atoms become a part of us, and when we die our atoms go on to become part of a million other things. Almost none of the atoms in our body were there when we were born. Atoms that were once a part of us now exist in the things all around us, and vice versa. This is the cycle of life.
Our chef is a deep philosophical thinker, and his meals reflect this. He rarely serves an atom of food that hasn’t already been around the block at least a few times. His meal this week, Naroghid Bin Chicken Stew, captures this concept of the cycle of life beautifully. The ibis stew is served to Rotarians, and when Rotarians fail to eat the meal, it goes into the bin. The stew then ends up in the Naroghid landfill, where it is eaten by other ibises. A quick trip out to Naroghid in the dead of night, and our man is ready to prepare another stew.
When your correspondent was growing up, one of my brothers raised two roosters on a diet of chicken meat. This had two effects. Firstly, the roosters became psychopathic and would attack anyone and anything they came into contact with. When my mother insisted my brother slaughter the roosters because they had become a danger, we discovered the second problem. The roosters were as tough as old rope, so my mother had to boil the meat for ages and serve it in a stew with a very thick sauce.
Our man is a student of traditional Australian cooking. His Naroghid Bin Chicken Stew is the perfect way to serve cannibalistic, psychopathic ibises. His stew was beautifully presented on a bed of rice with a pappadum. Some frozen vegies were thawed out to prop up the other side of the pappadum.
Naroghid Bin Chicken Stew – the atoms will leave you just as quickly as you took them on.
