Doug Kerr
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This past week we had a wonderful visit from some friends from Germany. The wife, Ingrid, is the daughter of a fellow I met in 1960, when we were both working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. (He went back to Germany in the late 1960s.) We remained friends and technical colleagues for many decades, essentially until his death early this year.
His daughter is a food scientist by academic training, and is with a major German manufacturer of sugar substitutes.
Her husband, Horst, a chemical engineer by original academic training, is now a business development executive executive with a major international technical construction and engineering firm. Their 9 year old son Andreas was with them, with a mind that won't quit.
Typical question of his father: "Well, if Iran had refused to let Chancellor Merkel's plane go through their airspace, and it had to land in Turkey, would they have had to get some kind of special permission for that, and would there have been a lot of extra paperwork to do?" [This was all auf Deutsch, of course, with some interlineated translation by Horst, so my translation may have been a bit paraphrasic.]
They are a wonderful family and it was a wonderful visit.
Of course, Carla was operating at full capacity, planning and cooking many fabulous meals, arranging for visits to museums and the Fort Worth Stockyards, and so forth. She is just amazing, and is my best friend, my muse and my inspiration.
Here we see her in the kitchen as we get ready to go out to breakfast with our friends the day they left for home.
Douglas A. Kerr: Carla Christine Kerr in her kitchen, 2011
By the way, she will be 73 next week. Yes, she wears a stylish watch with a very readable dial.
The green vessel is filled with Carla's famous pasta confetti salad, a batch that would be used at a birthday party that evening at her daughter's house. It is famous worldwide. Ingrid in fact makes it. It requires a special obscure salad dressing as an ingredient (Carla has to special order it through a local supermarket), and part of Ingrid's mission here was to pick some up so we would not have to ship it to them in Germany.
Best regards,
Doug
His daughter is a food scientist by academic training, and is with a major German manufacturer of sugar substitutes.
Her husband, Horst, a chemical engineer by original academic training, is now a business development executive executive with a major international technical construction and engineering firm. Their 9 year old son Andreas was with them, with a mind that won't quit.
Typical question of his father: "Well, if Iran had refused to let Chancellor Merkel's plane go through their airspace, and it had to land in Turkey, would they have had to get some kind of special permission for that, and would there have been a lot of extra paperwork to do?" [This was all auf Deutsch, of course, with some interlineated translation by Horst, so my translation may have been a bit paraphrasic.]
They are a wonderful family and it was a wonderful visit.
Of course, Carla was operating at full capacity, planning and cooking many fabulous meals, arranging for visits to museums and the Fort Worth Stockyards, and so forth. She is just amazing, and is my best friend, my muse and my inspiration.
Here we see her in the kitchen as we get ready to go out to breakfast with our friends the day they left for home.
Douglas A. Kerr: Carla Christine Kerr in her kitchen, 2011
By the way, she will be 73 next week. Yes, she wears a stylish watch with a very readable dial.
The green vessel is filled with Carla's famous pasta confetti salad, a batch that would be used at a birthday party that evening at her daughter's house. It is famous worldwide. Ingrid in fact makes it. It requires a special obscure salad dressing as an ingredient (Carla has to special order it through a local supermarket), and part of Ingrid's mission here was to pick some up so we would not have to ship it to them in Germany.
Best regards,
Doug
