How to Play
- Get a basket from the Protag-o-Matic ingredients machine. Copy and paste your basket at the top of your tale.
- 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.
- 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?