For your ears only.....

I give lot more importance to purchasing ingredients for cooking.I beleive that is what makes the end product what it is.Not just blind indent and identification of ingredients is enough for purchasing, when it comes to cooking ingredients a little amount of sense is as essential as salt to any dish.Our indent is a very eloborate one, indeed i write both in english and tamil, with special specification if any. Our purchase incharge is very clever with money, and with clear eyesight his identification of ingredients is excellent, but the ear? Yes, he is having an earing problem, not only the words which enter his ear fades, but also the cooking.

Mr.G has been our purchase incharge for past two year, and everything is perfect in him except his ears. He is verymuch happy with himself, but for peoples around him? everything appears upside down.

Once I indented for crab which we call Nandu in tamil, after hours and hours Mr.G came empty handed only to explain that there is nothing called Nandu(Crab) among shellfish, after which I found that he took my Nandu( crab) for Vandu, which he serched hours and hours at Ukkadam fish market. Its my mistake no proper briefing was given before the purcashe.

Mr.G's eating habit is exemplary and will do anything, when it comes to food. He loves argument and its very difficult to win him, because whatever we say never enter his humble ear, he never waited for the finial touch of the dishes and eats everyting for A to Z what we cook.

For past several months , I did not had any problem with his purcahse , after the crab incident, I explained each and every ingredient before hand, certain times its hard to explain staranise and mace in tamil, he often have problem with NO ( numbers) and Kg ( kilo grams), once he purcahsed twenty kilos of apples where the indent says only twenty numbers.

The real problem is in purchasing for continental menu, and I'm happy teaching indian menu, he copies down the ingredients in local language with his own handwriting . Last week he forget to purchase Bacon( Smoked belly of pork) , after explaining him , what and how bacon is, we had Mr.G back in the kitchen after thiry minutes with Bagon spray in his hand. Bacon and Bagon, no big diffrence to Mr.G's ear, but the cooking session?

I don't want to take chances with Mr.G's purcahse , so I planned to sit and teach him each and everyting , before he leaves for purchase, and today he bought peanut butter for prawns. Wher do i start? How do i start?