fic: Food Porn (Soundtrack & Glossary) R - J2 AU

[unreckless]

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MASTER POST
SOUNDTRACK & GLOSSARY

Title: Food Porn
Rating: R
Pairing: J2, assorted background ships that include het
Word count: ~50,000
Disclaimer: Not mine, never happened, etc.
Warning: Language like whoa. No, seriously. Fuck and its derivatives are used 180 times in those 50K words. Also, there is some explicit het.

Summary: Jensen’s a neurotic sous chef and his roommate Jared’s a disgruntled chef turned blogger turned author who’s just trying to finish his book. Mostly they call each other names, and then they fall in love. And then they call each other names some more.


ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE | SIX | EPILOGUE
MASTER POSTSOUNDTRACK & GLOSSARY

Soundtrack:


Mixin' Up Adjectives - This is Me Smiling
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Everybody Knows that You Are Insane - Queens of the Stone Age
Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin
I Taught Myself How to Grow Old - Ryan Adams
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jamie Cullum
Better - Regina Spektor
Brandy Alexander - Feist
Sweet the Sting - Tori Amos
The Thrill Is Gone - BB King (Not included in the zip as my version's .m4p and I couldn't find another)
Nuclear - Ryan Adams
Gay - Stephen Lynch
New - No Doubt


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Glossary:
Beth suggested that maybe I should make a glossary, since not everyone is going to know what I’m talking about with a lot of the food and food industry stuff. I’ve lived in this crazy world my whole life (you write what you know, right?), so clogs and S&P and Food & Wine are totally familiar to me. But if you’re confused, here’s some info:


checks – see chef’s uniform

chef’s uniform – generally made up of a double-breasted jacket (often white, but not always; depends on individual’s preference and the place where s/he works), black and white checkered pants (“checks” – not always actually checkered; often printed with cartoon peppers or pasta shapes in chain restaurants), and slip-on shoes with steel toes and seriously heavy-duty rubber soles (clogs, but they usually have backs, I promise). You know those silly-looking things Mario Batali wears on Molto Mario? Yeah, those are clogs. Every chef I’ve ever known swears by them, so there you go. Here’s Chefwear’s website.

clogs – see chef’s uniform

Fiestaware – made by the Homer Laughlin China Company in tiny Chester, WV, in the coolest tourable factory ever (the seconds room is the size of a football field, filled with brightly colored china. It’s epic). You’ve seen this stuff before. The vintage stuff goes for big bucks on eBay. No matter what Macy’s displays tell you, you ARE supposed to mix and match colors. You should see my mother’s collection.

jacket – see chef’s uniform

Jim Thome - Current White Sox DH I think. I fangirl him pretty hardcore, but mainly because he used to be an Indian and because of the WORDUPTHOME character at The Dugout. This shirt? I WANT IT.

diver scallops – not necessarily big, but usually. These are the ones that are hand-collected by—surprise!—divers instead of just culled with a net. Generally this means they’re bigger, choicier-looking critters. Expensive, but top quality.

molecular gastronomy – Wylie Dufresne. Alton Brown. Marcel from Top Chef. I’m dubious, personally, but it’s a big trend in food now. Here’s the wiki page for it. Poke around, maybe it’s your thing.

rotisseur – he’s your grill guy. Usually handles everything to do with meat, from prep to grill or roasting pan to carving if appropriate. Tools include big knives and two-pronged forks.

S&P – salt and pepper. (When the kitchen’s busy, the names of everything get shortened to the crudest, most screamable distinguishable form. I worked in an Italian restaurant where Pasta e Fagioli soup was called simply “fag,” as in, “gimme a bowl of fag.”)

sous chef – There’s a hierarchy to the kitchen staff. On top of the pile is the executive or head chef. After him/her it varies among restaurants, but the general gist goes: sous chefs (numbered one-down if there are multiples), then your expediter (who essentially runs the line – organizing orders, making sure the food gets out to the tables, and putting on finishing touches), then the chefs de partie (or station chefs, which includes rotisseurs, sauciers, fry cooks, veggie guys, pantry chefs, fish guys, etc.). After that, generally, come kitchen assistants or porters, who are usually people who don’t actually have culinary training and mostly do prep and other background work. On the very bottom rung are the dishwashers.

toque – the funny-shaped white hat. It’s tall to allow air to circulate above the chef’s head while still covering the hair. Most chefs just wear a bandana in everyday work, though, which helps to sop up sweat, or a baseball cap. Working in a kitchen is hot, sweaty, fairly nasty work, yo.

Waiter Rant – What? You don’t already have this blog bookmarked? I’ve been reading him since pretty much the beginning and to tell you the truth, I’m a little sad he had to give up his anonymity with the release of his book. Jared’s a little bit based on this guy.

Williams-Sonoma – Awesome higher-end cookery supply store.

By the way, the penis game in Waiting? Totally real.

Comments

[twofourteen.livejournal.com]

So I was all "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE SOUNDTRACK!!" and then you didn't have the link up. *sad life*

And then you didn't have The Thrill Is Gone, so I went and found it for you.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nu2qm8

Murray Christmas. ;)

[unreckless.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, you are a beautiful person!

I had issues with sendspace last night, which is why it's not up yet. And now that I have "The Thrill is Gone" I can upload a complete version! It's uploading now, but my connection is wireless and slow.

Thank you!

[twofourteen.livejournal.com]

Wooh! Not a problem.

I actually found it on beemp3.com, which is a pretty awesome site. :)

[unreckless.livejournal.com]

Duly noted and bookmarked for future abuse.

Sendspace, however, is still being a bastard.

[twofourteen.livejournal.com]

It's good for those times when you want to add a song to a mix but you don't really have any desire to download the whole disc. Or ya know, legally buy music.

ARG.