The Culinary Tales Week 8: Where’s the Beef?
Would you believe that up until culinary school, I had personally never cooked a steak? It’s the kind of thing I didn’t bother cooking for myself at…
The Culinary Tales Week 7: Starting Over and Lessons in Poultry
We graduated onto Intro II, which meant: New chef (new rules.) New recipes. (New angst.) New floor (new bathroom, hence new favorite toilet.) It turned…
The Culinary Tales Week 6: An Eggs-ellent Finale
Finals week was just plain exhausting, starting with our written final and knife cuts practical on Monday. A little frightening, looking back now, how much knife…
The Culinary Tales Week 5: The Real Kitchen Nightmares
Week 5 turned out to be a kaleidoscope of highs and lows. The Lows: We had another pop quiz and this time, we had to…
New York Nostalgia
I came across a cache of old photos from this trip to New York ten years ago to this day, so I thought I’d take a…
The Culinary Tales Week 4: Knife Cuts & Drama in the Kitchen
Week Four started off with a bang when, unexpectedly, we were ordered to set up our stations for a pop quiz on knife cuts. We were supposed…
The Culinary Tales Week 3: Potayto, Potahto
If I heard the word “push” one more time, I thought I would vomit. Every time Chef Bad Cop uttered the phrase, I wanted to…
The Culinary Tales Week 2: Up Close and Personal with Starches
The teachers weren’t kidding when they said this was a “push” week, when we learned about sauces, soups and pasta. Sounded simple enough, but if you’ve ever tried…
The Culinary Tales Week 1: Adventures in Culinary School
I survived the first week. But barely. Culinary school is cool and exciting and I say this with the complete understanding that I’m demented enough to…