Mary le Chef: Cooking Passion/Farmer's Market

This is the fourth chapter in Mary le Chef: Cooking Passion.

## Level 31 - Fresh Start

* Morey, Mary and Peter enter the market.
* Luigi: UNGRATEFUL SWINE!
* Quierno: STUBBORN MULE!
* Luigi: I'm a' closing my restaurant so I can travel Italy for the summer.
* Luigi: My brother here promised to run it for me while I'm a' gone, but now he says he's "too busy".
* Luigi: So I made him a' promise that you and Morey can a' work here.
* Luigi: APE!
* Luigi: Don' tell him I said this, but he is a genius.
* Luigi: You'll learn things about flavor, freshness and seasonality that you can't learn anywhere else!
* Mary and Luigi hug.
* Luigi gave Morey a hug.
* Luigi: FOOL!
* Quierno: DOG!
* Luigi gave Quierno a hug.
* Luigi: I love you - see you at the reunion.
* Morey: Sniff! I wish I had a brother.
* Peter: I'll see you later, babe - I start my first shift at The Country Mouse in an hour.
* Mary gives Peter a kiss. Then Peter leaves.

### After the level

* Mary works the table while Jennifer enters the market.
* Jennifer: I have news! Come, sit down.
* Jennifer and Mary sat down.
* Jennifer: I'm leaving Gottleib to start my own firm.
* Mary: Wow!
* Jennifer: I'm taking two small clients with me - Gottleib won't even notice they're gone.
* Mary: That's awesome!
* Mary: What pushed you over the edge?
* Jennifer: You, sort of.
* Jennifer: I'm sick of the grind - working 80 hours a week, billing every waking hour of my life to a client.
* Jennifer: I always felt like a square peg in a round hole there - and I didn't like the person it was making me become.
* Jennifer: I need more balance in my life - time to sing...
* Jennifer: ...to get married, maybe even a kid one day. We'll see.
* Jennifer: Gotta run - but I want you to know that if you pass the bar, I can have a job waiting for you.
* Mary: Oh, thank you! My parents will be SO relieved to hear that!
* Jennifer: Study hard - I'll come by and help you when I can.
* Jennifer leaves the market.

## Level 32 - Family Relations

* Quierno: My brother speaks a' very highly of you.
* Mary: Thanks!
* Quierno: Except for the dancing - he told me never to watch you dance unless I wanted nightmares.
* Quierno: I suppose he told you all about me?
* Mary: Er… actually I didn't even know he had a brother.
* Quierno: I need you to watch for delivery person, got it?
* Mary: You bet.

### During the level

* Mary keeps an eye out for the delivery guy to accept.

### After the level

* Mary opens the letter!
* Morey: Bad news?
* Mary: No... No, not really. It's just that I finally have a date and time for my bar exam.
* Mary: It's coming up soon. Sooner than I thought.
* There was Morey's dad came into the market.
* Morey's dad: Morey! There you are! Why haven't you returned any of my calls? Your mother's sick with worry!
* Morey: Uh... Hey, Dad.
* Morey's dad: Morey, he time has come for you to forget this mashugana showbiz dream of yours, and join the family business.
* Morey: B- but you said I had a year to try and make it??
* Morey's dad: Yeah, well - your mother wants me to retire before then.
* Morey: I DON'T want to sell granite countertops, Dad!
* Morey's dad: Those countertops pay for your lifestyle, young man!
* Morey: Not anymore they don't! I support myself, now.
* Morey's dad: Oh really? Well you didn't pay for that fiddle - it cost ME a fortune!
* Morey's dad took the violin away and leaves.
* Morey: It's a VIOLIN, not a fiddle!

## Level 33 - Always Room For Dessert

* Mary enters the market. Richard enters with the books.
* Mary: Dad!
* Mary and her dad hug.
* Richard: I ran into Jennifer - she told me you've been studying hard for the bar.
* Mary: It's coming up soon. I'm actually considering putting it off until fall.
* Richard: Why would you do that?
* Mary: I'd rather just take it once and pass, then have to go through this twice.
* Richard: You're a Vanderworth - the law is in our blood! Of course you'll pass.
* Richard places the books.
* Richard: Here - I dug up some old textbooks to help you study.
* Mary: Thanks, Dad. Hey! How about I make you some lunch?
* Richard: I'm sorry, dear… They've called an emergency board meeting at the firm.
* Mary: Emergency, huh? Did the office run out of vermouth or something?
* Richard kisses Mary on her forehead.
* Richard: I'll have to take a rain check on that lunch...
* Richard leaves the market.

### During the level

* Mary clears the books from the table, moves the book to the barrel.

### After the level

* Mary studies the law.
* Morey: Hey, Mary! I've been working on some new jokes. Wanna hear?
* Morey: Ahem! What's a frog's favorite soda pop?
* Morey: Croak-a-cola!
* Morey: Get it? CROAK-a-cola?
* Mary pleases.
* Morey: You're right - it needs more work.
* Peter enters the market.
* Mary: Hey! How was the Country Mouse?
* PEter: I quit.
* Mary's scared.
* Peter: I spent a day in their kitchen and realized it just wasn't for me.
* Mary: Gee, a whole day, huh? What happened, you get passed over for a promotion?
* Peter: C'mon, I'll tell you all about it over some dessert.
* Mary: Alright, but I can't stay out long. I have to study.
* Peter and Mary leave for a date.

## Level 34 - Safe With The Law

* Peter: I don't get it... Why go through all this effort? Your parents?
* Mary: It's really not about them, Peter.
* Mary: As a lawyer I'd have financial security, plus the chance to do pro bono work sometimes - help people who really need it.
* Mary: It doesn't hurt that my parents are owner-partners in their own firm, either.
* Mary: They have a million contracts I can take advantage of, and one day their shares in the firm will be passed down to me.
* Mary: Compare all that to bouncing from restaurant to restaurant once a month, and suddenly it doesn't sound so bad.
* Peter tries to serve Mary.
* Peter: Please, I've seen you drop those books like a hot rack the moment someone offers you a chance to do something interesting in the kitchen.
* Mary: Is that an offer?
* Peter and Mary kiss each other.
* Then Mary serves Peter.
* Mary: Anyhow, I'd think you be glad to have a wealthy sugar mama for a girlfriend.
* Peter: What'd be the point if I don't ever get to see you?
* Peter: Or if you're so miserable working a job you hate you've got no energy for anything else?
* Mary: Well then, maybe I'll have to buy us a restaurant where we can cook together sometimes.
* Morey enters the market.
* Mary: Anyhow, it's late... I should get back to studying. What time is it?
* Morey: Morning!
* Morey kicked the crate and slipped!
* Morey: AGHH!
* Peter and Mary kiss. Then Peter left the ice cream and leaves the market.

### After the level

* Luigi's brother: Luigi told me yo had the talent to be a great chef one day...
* Mary: He did!?
* Mary: I mean, of course he did.
* Mary: I plan on cooking in my spare time, then retiring early so I can open my own restaurant someday.
* Quierno: A lawyer and a cook have about as much in common as a porcupine and a porpoise.
* Quierno: And you? Luigi told me you play the violin like a lark...
* Quierno: ...when you can be bothered.
* Morey: Pfft! Who needs a violin when you have material like THIS!
* Morey: Ahem! Why won't the lobster share his toys?
* Morey: Because he's shellfish.
* Morey: 'Shellfish!'
* Quierno: Hire them,' my brother said. 'You'll thank me later,' he said...
* Quierno leaves the market.
* Mary's down.

## Level 35 - Priorities

* Luigi's brother enters with a crate to Mary.
* Mary: Oh no! I fell asleep...
* Mary: I didn't get ANY studying done, and the mar exam is almost here!
* Quierno: Perhaps there is a reason why you fell asleep...
* Mary: Like what? Like I'm putting it off subconsciously because I don't want to pass? Don't be ridic-
* Mary: Oh, my gosh! Are those atemoyas!
* Quierno: That's right! Come, I'll show you how to prepare them.

### During the level

* Mary brings **Quierno** what he needs to show you how to prepare atemoya fruit.

### After the level

* Mary reads the law. There was a letter.
* Mary: Your whole life so mar has been in preparation for this moment. We believe in you! Love, Mom & Dad.
* Peter enters the market.
* Peter: Hey, a friend of mine who works at Rodeo invited us to come cook with him after hours.
* Mary: I can't - I really need to get serious about studying.
* Peter: They have truuuuuufles…
* Mary: I mean it, I have to stay focused.
* Peter: ...and REAL sherry from Portugal.
* Mary: PETER - I HAVE to study.
* Peter: Jeez, Mary! You can't keep living someone else's life.
* Mary: Uh... whose life am I living, exactly?
* Peter: I don't know - but whoever it belongs to, it's not yours.
* Mary: I think I know who I am better than you do, thanks.
* Peter: Weird, because I thought I was dating someone who was passionate about the same things I am.
* Mary: And what would that be, exactly? Drifting from kitchen to kitchen with no plans for your future?
* Peter: If THIS is your future, I don't want any part of it.
* Peter left the market. Mary stares.

## Bonus 18 - Please Don't Stand Up

*During the challenge, Morey makes jokes.*

* Joke 1
	+ What starts and ends with E, but has only 1 letter in it?
	+ An envelope!
* Joke 2
	+ Whiteboards.
	+ They're remarkable.
* Joke 3
	+ What can you give and keep at the same time?
	+ A cold!
* Joke 4
	+ Why couldn't the leopard play hide and seek?
	+ Because he was always spotted.
* Joke 5
	+ What makes tissues dance?
	+ A little boogie!
* Joke 6
	+ What made the can crusher quit his job?
	+ It was soda pressing.
* Joke 7
	+ Did you hear about the identical twins who robbed a bank?
	+ After they were caught, they finished each other's sentences.
* Response:
	+ …
	+ Check, please!
	+ Sir, you're scaring the children.

## Level 36 - A Turbulent Road

* Morey: So I sold my vacuum cleaner the other day...
* Morey: All it was doing was collecting dust!
* The customers leave.
* Morey: Wait! Come back! I've got more!
* Morey: Uh... Hi Dad.
* Morey's dad: Morey, it's time to come HOME...
* Mary: You know, I think you should really let Morey make his own decisions in life.
* Morey's dad: Excuse me? I think I know what's best for my own son.
* Mary: Oh yeah? Well you're wrong. For starters, Morey is VERY talented.
* Morey's dad REALLY? Tell him that, then. Honestly, tell him how funny he is.
* Mary: Er… I... uh...
* Mary: It doesn't matter! This is HIS dream, HIS life, not yours!
* Morey's dad: End of the month, Morey. If you haven't given up this facacta fantasy by then I'm disowning you... forever!
* Morey's dad leaves anyway.

### During the level

* Mary gives the chicken what she wants, not the chicken laying the eggs.

### After the level

* Quierno: You! Come a' here!
* Morey comes to Quierno. Luigi's brother has a violin!
* Morey: Oh, wow! Is... Is this for me?
* Quierno: You a' gonna pay me back my playing for my customers, eh?
* Morey: Yeah, sure! Thanks, Quierno!
* Morey takes the violin from Quierno.
* Quierno: Miss studiato! You hungry? I'm a' making a fisherman's insalata!
* Quierno goes to counter.
* Mary: Fisherman's salad? What's that?
* Quierno: Today it is a' shrimp, with miniature roasted stuffed peppers and wild greens.
* Mary stands up.
* Quierno: Tomorrow it could a' be something else. Depends what the fisherman catch.
* Mary: You know, what might go nicely with that is some fresh marjoram leaves.
* Mary: But no one has tho-
* Quierno has leaves.
* Mary: You know, why don't I take a little break and give you a hand with that?
* They work. Mary spins!

## Level 37 - Lawyer and Order

* Mary: Hey, Jennifer - um... Do you think I could take you up on that offer for some tutoring help... again?
* Morey enters the market.
* Mary: I dunno, I'm just having a hard time staying focused.
* QUierno and Richard enter the market.
* Mary: Thanks, Jennifer. I'll see you later.
* Quierno: There is a gentleman a' here to see you...
* Mary: Peter?
* Mary: Oh, hi Dad.
* Richard: Some welcome! Who's Peter?
* Mary: OH... it's nothing, dad. What's up?
* Richard: Well, I thought I'd take my daughter up on her offer of lunch.
* Richard: Where shall we go?
* Mary: We don't need to go anywhere!
* Mary: Come, sit. Let me wait on you.
* Richard sits.

### During the level

* Mary keeps serving Richard throughout the day.

### After the level

* Richard: That was DELIGHTFUL!
* Mary: Eating fresh-from-the-farm makes a huge difference.
* Mary: Dad? Why did YOU decide to become a lawyer?
* Richard: Well, truth be told... it was because of your mother.
* Richard: I'm afraid it was an ACUTE case of live at first sight.
* Richard: We didn't meet until the end of our senior year of college...
* Richard: ...when I learned she applied to law school, I did the same.
* Richard: I suppose you could say I 'followed my passion'.
* Richard contacts Mary on her forehead.
* Richard: It was the best decision I ever made.
* Richard: Now, if you'll excuse me, dear, I must be off.
* Richard leaves the market.

## Level 38 - Focused Work

* While Quierno cleans tables, Mary enters the market.
* Mary: How are things going with your dad?
* Morey: Sigh... He still won't budge.
* Morey: I guess there's nothing left for me to do but run a multi-million dollar granite tile and countertop company...
* Morey: ...buy a sports car... a house with a pool... vacation in Hawaii every year... SIGH.
* Quierno: When you put it like a' that I almost want to take a' your violin!
* Mary: Morey - you tell a lot of 'traditional' jokes...
* Mary: Have you ever thought of just using material from your own life?
* Mary: You know, putting all those feelings and emotions you have into your comedy?
* Morey: I dunno, I guess it's worth a shot.

### During the level

* Mary helps Morey come up with jokes.
* Mary: Try putting more of yourself into your comedy!
	+ Write a lot, perform a lot... practice makes perfect!
	+ Don't just recite your jokes, talk to your audience.
	+ You're... Unique, Morey! Let people see that.
	+ You can incorporate current events into your jokes.

### After the level

* Jennifer and Tony enter the market while Mary reads.
* Mary: Hey guys!
* Jennifer: Alright! Let's get cracking!
* Jennifer: YOU - get us some Chinese takeout. I don't want her tempted to start cooking.
* Tony: Yes, ma'am!
* Tony leaves the market.
* Jennifer: YOU - play something soft, relaxing, not too distracting.
* Morey plays the violin.
* Jennifer sits at the chair.
* Jennifer: Now, let's get to work!

## Level 39 - Ready or Not...

* Mary cleans the table while Peter enters the market.
* Mary: Where have you been? I tried calling.
* Peter: Yeah, sorry. I guess I just needed time to cool off.
* Mary: Look - I'm sorry for snapping at you.
* Peter: Yeah, well - I'm sorry for trying to tell you how to love your life.
* Peter: For someone who hates it when people serve those potatoes to me I sure do like to dish them out.
* Peter and Mary had a quick hug.
* Peter: Hey, I almost forgot. I got you something.
* Peter gives the gold plated thimble with cat charm.
* Peter: It's a gold plated thimble with a cat charm in it...
* Peter: … a lot of chefs have these in their kitchens for good luck.
* Mary: That's sweet...
* Peter: Good luck on your test, okay? I'll talk to you later.
* Mary: Hey, how about we get together after the test? Celebrate by eating somewhere new?
* Peter: Oh, uh... yeah! Definitely - gimme a call.
* Peter leaves the market.

### After the level

* While Quierno cleans a table, Jennifer and Tony enter the market.
* Tony: Good luck!
* Jennifer: Luck, schmuck! She's ready.
* Mary: It feels like there's this ten thousand pound weight on my shoulders.
* Mary: Honestly, I'll just be glad to get it over with.
* Morey: Sounds like high school.
* Quierno: For tomorrow.
* Mary takes the bag.
* Mary: Thanks, Quierno - that's so sweet.
* Mary: Well, I'm going to try and get some sleep.
* Mary: See you all tomorrow - unless a panic attack has me fleeing to Mexico.
* Mary leaves the market.
* Tony: High school...

## Level 40 - Trouble in Paradise

* Mary is tired.
* Morey: WELL? Well, well, well?
* Quierno: Give her a' some space!
* Quierno: WELL? Well, well, well?
* Mary: It's... really hard to tell... And I won't get my results for weeks.
* There was Steve arriving at the market.
* Quierno: Steven! SO good a' to see you!
* They're surprised.
* Mary: Psst! When was the last time Quierno looked happy to see ANYONE?
* Steve: I don't have a lot of time here, Quierno - I'[m taping a segment for Good Morning Snuggford in forty minutes.
* Quierno: Well, what did you a' think of my offer, eh?
* Steve looks at his market.
* Steve: I don't know... This place is kind of... 'provincial'.
* Steve: Buuuut you do have the freshest stuff in town, so... I guess I'll but it.
* Morey and Mary are shocked.

### After the level

* The party is on! Jennifer and Tony enter the market.
* Mary: What's all this?
* Quierno: I'm a' selling my market - and YOU are a' done with your a' test!
* Quierno: Don't a' worry! I put in a good word for you and a' Mary, here!
* Quierno: **Steven Adrose** is one of the most a' famous young chefs in the country! A GENIUS!
* Jennifer: Congrats, Mary.
* Jennifer gives a box to Mary.
* Mary: Thank you!
* Mary: Isn't Peter coming?
* Morey's dad enter the market.
* Morey's dad: Let's go, Morey! Time to blow this popsicle stand.
* Mary: Mr. Lornerbaum? Before you go, how would you like a nice piece of cake?
* Morey's dad: Mmm... I'd love some.
* Morey's dad sits at the table for Mary to get a cake.
* Morey: My dad describes a 'pleasure trip' as driving his mother-in-law to the airport!
* Morey: My aunt Golda has been married so many times we started buying rice in bulk.
* Morey's dad: So true!
* Morey: It's like my grandpa used to say, the secret to a happy marriage remains a secret.
* Morey's dad: Enough! Enough!
* Morey's dad: I'll give you six more months - but I want to see you start performing in clubs!
* Morey's dad gave his son a hug.
* There was a call!
* Mary: Mom! Mom, hi!
* Mary: Mom, slow down... I can't understan-
* Mary: Oh my gosh! I'll be right there!
* Mary: It's my father...
* Mary: ...he's had a heart attack!
* They're surprised about Mary's dad!