Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:
> "Brian Mailman" > wrote in message

>>> So here is a hypothetical question for you, my illustrious group
>>> of canning giants. What would you trade teaching canning skills
>>> for? What would you like to learn that you don't know how to do?
>>> I think I would can all day for someone if they would just clean
>>> my damned house for me. What about you?
>>
>> Conversational French.

> This trade I might could do for you, Brian. I have four kids, the
> two boys (24, 15) cook like angels. The girls, particularly the elder
> (17, 12) can't cook a lick and the big one thinks boiling eggs takes
> an hour (don't ask how I found this out), but she has taken 7 years
> of French and is fairly fluent. She can talk foo foo french cookery
> but don't ask her to do it!!!

Heh. That's why I emphasized "conversational." I spent some years
apprenticed, learning the "foo foo" cooking stuff.

B/