How to Play

1. Get a basket from the Protag-o-Matic ingredients machine. Copy and paste your basket at the top of your tale.
   
2. Create a small dish of a stirring story -- 300 words or less -- using ALL the ingredients from your basket. Use people places and things as narrative; use food items for a recipe folded into the fiction. Season the tale with the emotional spice packet.
   
3. We encourage you also to post a video in which you either tell the story, tell about the story, or tell how you made the story.

Recommendations for Students Chefs & Classes:

• Post 3 Dishes (at least one should be REHASH of someone else's basket -- label it a Rehash and link to the original)


• Post at least 1 comment on another chef's dish that you enjoyed.


• Post at least 1 video of a DISH you made.

This is a kindly kitchen, so please keep it polite and supportive. If you can't say something nice about someone's dish, stuff a hunk of bread in your pie hole -- although do consider dipping it in the soup first.

Videos

Videos should be less than 2 minutes long. Less than 1 minute may be best.
(some suggestions)
Audio: Tell the story you wrote: or Tell a new story about how you made that story.
ideas for videos

• Capture the emotional weight of the story
  
• Show some process of making the story
  
• Show the ingredients from the story
  
• Show people enjoying your story
  

Below are some prewriting questions:

• What’s your strongest emotional memory tied to cooking or a meal?
  
• What are 3 ways that storytelling and food can be combined?
  
• Describe the meal of sadness (not to be confused with the meal of remorse)
  
• What are 5 moody cooking ingredients and what is there mood?
  
• Tell a story about a time you cooked with someone else.
  
• Who was the best cook in your life? Did you ever see their emotions while they cooked?