240: Mama to the Rescue

Brendan Main

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Mama to the Rescue

When Brendan Main and his wife got stuck in a slumhole apartment in an unfamiliar city with Cooking Mama as their only entertainment, they both had the same hare-brained idea: to assemble a makeshift kitchen and try their hands at a few of Mama's strangest recipes.

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alejandropro

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I was hitting my thigh as I read this. It was awesome.
I'm a definite Arendt-Fan, but your food article has got her's beat. (please don't tell her I said that...)
 

wench

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Fantastic article! I have to admit, I'm curious about the apartment - did it get fixed? Did the tenant's board ride to the rescue? I hope it turned out ok in the end.
 

Hertzey

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I would love for Cooking with Mama to come out with a cookbook... all that nummy food...
 

TitsMcGee1804

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great article, its so true, you can have the tastiest ready meal ever, but it wont beat a good old homecooked meal with pride
 

Byrn Stuff

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I really enjoyed this! Food is probably one of my main passions in life: Eating and cooking are pleasures to be shared with loved ones, and I feel like this column really gets at that. Plus, as someone that rarely uses recipes and just sort of throws together flavors and techniques he enjoys, I can empathize with the wonder at just how much greater the whole is when compared to its parts.
 

ReverseEngineered

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Such a great article. The imagery was vivid and the suspense was killing me. I just had to know how this crazy idea would turn out. Glad to see that it was a tasty endeavor.

Bravo! Keep up the great writing.
 

ryukage_sama

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That was a great story. I would show it to my girlfriend, a fan of the Cooking Mama franchise, but I'm afraid she would get worried about the whole "our new home is a disaster, and we just got swindled" aspect of the story since we are currently shopping for a home to buy.
 

Vert

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Great story! Not really in the vein of the Escapist's usual fare, but fun and funny at the same time. You have quite some talent at writing, Mr Main!
 

skyfire_freckles

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I enjoy cooking from time to time, and I enjoyed this article. I don't usually comment just to say that, but there it is. I laughed.
 

FunkyJ

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I had to laugh at the Squid fried soba, Loco moco, Keema curry and chapatti being "exotic foods" bit...

I know what all those are and I'm a fussy eater!

Maybe Australia is far more multicultural than I thought...
 

Andronicus

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Great story! I'm also curious about what happened afterwards though. I hope that landlord slips on an upturned glass whilst coming down a long, long flight of stairs...

FunkyJ said:
Maybe Australia is far more multicultural than I thought...
Dude, Australia's more multicultural than the United Nations.
 

Expie

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"A friend of mine, an accomplished chef, describes cooking as alchemy: You combine mundane items and produce something wondrous, a whole greater than its parts. But what we did that night was closer to necromancy."

Great! Now I'm hungry AND laughing my arse off!!
 

ShadowKatt

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I saved that article to my favorites to spread around. People are always sending me these religous psalms(even though I'm devoutely NOT religous) and heroic stories, but THIS is inspirational.
 

SonicKoala

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I have to say, this was my favourite article of the week. It was funny, it was dramatic, and even a little inspiring. I particularly enjoyed your life lessons - the first two were hilarious, the last one rather touching. That being said, my one experience playing Cooking Mama involved me screwing up literally anything I tried to cook (probably due to my consumption of some distinctly poor-quality gin). But hey, maybe that food would have tasted amazing as well.