Archive for January, 2011

The picture above–of my daughter and me enjoying a creation that took patience and several days to create, has nothing to do with the cooking I’ve been doing this week.  That picture would be a blur. Second Quarter’s Practicum–our main class–is called “Quantity Cooking.”  As I’ve said before, we’re cooking for all the culinary students [...]

This morning before class started, my classmate turned around and warned us, “The substitute teacher today is supposed to be really strict, you guys.  He used to teach here.”  We straightened up and tried to contain ourselves a little better.  We’d been noisy and laughing up until then. When class started, though, and the substitute [...]

This week began with a bang: The banging of pots, that is.  Although our class begins production this week and cooks for the rest of the culinary and pastry students, my own rotation this week is not even in the kitchen, it’s in the dish pit. This is a great thing, though. I have an enthusiastic, almost [...]