Category: Eat
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My Pants are on Fire…For the Next Two Years
I guess the shine had to wear off at some point. Well, that point is this week. On Sunday, I volunteered to work at a special event. After a brief competition, the event was open to the public. Live music, food tables hosted by restaurants, drink tables hosted by liquor companies. My job was to
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Greener Than Neon: My First Stage
Stage is pronounced like ‘Dodge’ – really like ‘sta-dge.’ It’s basically an opportunity to work for free in a restaurant kitchen. With the plethora of cooking shows out there, you may have heard of this term already. I say ‘opportunity’ here because even though the chef is getting free labor, you are getting a crash course
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The Tyranny of Bacon
I recall an old woman in the Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl series remarking how the dirt and sand got into everything. You’d keep sweeping and sweeping and sweeping, and cleaning and cleaning and cleaning, but it was all in vain. The dirt got into everything. It was in your hair, in your clothes after you
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My brunoise don’t stink
One of the things I was a bit concerned about before starting school was my knife skills – well, really my lack of knife skills. One of the requirements to be accepted at CIA is six months of either front of the house (hostess, waiter) or back of the house (in the kitchen) experience. Mine
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California Dreamin’
I must be dreaming – I can’t believe this is actually my life! I’m doing food 100%, 24/7, all the time, every day, every second. I’m talking about it, eating it, cooking it. I’m learning about growing it, transporting it, and storing it. I’m meeting people who have trained for years, run big kitchens, started
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One Toe Left On The Veg Bandwagon
You might have noticed my talk of eating fish last week, i.e. sea bass and salt cod. Well, I actually started eating fish about two and a half years ago. Sorry I didn’t share, but Vegetarianized.com was well…vegetarian. But, WOW – what a difference! I feel like I have so many more choices, and I
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Lunch and Learn
Even if you’ve never attended a ‘Lunch and Learn’ meeting, I think you could get the concept – somebody presents, you eat, you learn. Today that’s my pun for learning how to eat lunch at school in the Teaching Kitchen (TK for short). First a description: if you’ve never been to Greystone (that’s the name
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For Reals
One of the most challenging things I’ve encountered after day two is not the station set up (that’s called mise en place, by the way), or the colored buckets and cans I described yesterday. Rather it’s the recent high school graduates and early 20-somethings. Trying to have a conversation is sometimes just plain frustrating. By
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First Day of Culinary School
It would actually be nice to only need six hours sleep a night, but I doubt I’m developing a new, more efficient pattern. My headache woke me up at a point in my dream where a guy was pulling a long, serrated knife from his cheek as I encouraged him to end his life. That
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