It sure feels surreal to step on the speedy river raft of a Life Dream. When you fantasize about something for so many years–decades, even–it’s weird to start experiencing the real-life details that accompany the dream. Fluorescent lights. Combination locks. Attendance.
The first week of culinary school was a heaping platter of details. We survived a four-day onslaught of information about the [...]
For me, this new month of October is so full of awesomeness that I don’t even know what to do with myself. First of all, tomorrow is my first day of culinary school. I am giddy with excitement and might be up late tonight. After years of teaching school, I forgot what it’s like to [...]
In our cheesemaking class last week we had a milk tasting, which was surprisingly eye-opening. The contrast between cow’s milk in four different states–raw, pasteurized, pasteurized/homogenized, and ultrapasturized—really showed up when we tasted them one after the other.
The raw milk, in its original form from a Jersey cow, was our first taste and seriously intense [...]
