Tag: restaurant life

  • Lunch and Learn

    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

    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

    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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