At the ripe age of 14 I stared working in a restaurant as a dishwasher, I was intrigued by the cooks always watching what they were doing how they would do it always bothering them with questions, soon on my time off I would go in the kitchen and volunteer to help and I would get a meal for helping, that was all I wanted so it worked well for everyone and I could learn the art of cooking.
Soon the kitchen manager saw that I was faster then some of the other cooks and one day I looked at the schedule and was on the cook schedule not a dishwasher any more and the rest was history!! We made sometimes more than 100 omelettes, burgers, more than that, ect. in a day, it was move fast or die (hells kitchen) but I loved it!! Oh the stories I could tell!!
Over the years I have had the privilege of working hands on with some remarkable cooks and learned many techniques on preparing foods, sauces, soups, on and on and on, I am indebted to the one guy that gave me a chance at a very young age, The fat man, he called himself, he probably kept me from going the wrong direction at that time and gave me a goal, soon I was training cooks for a big company and later started my own restaurant and dabbling in the business many many years, I started Brunch with the foods I enjoy preparing...NO gourmet!! Just simple all made from scratch foods, the list is to long to list and much more to come down the pike..
Soon the kitchen manager saw that I was faster then some of the other cooks and one day I looked at the schedule and was on the cook schedule not a dishwasher any more and the rest was history!! We made sometimes more than 100 omelettes, burgers, more than that, ect. in a day, it was move fast or die (hells kitchen) but I loved it!! Oh the stories I could tell!!
Over the years I have had the privilege of working hands on with some remarkable cooks and learned many techniques on preparing foods, sauces, soups, on and on and on, I am indebted to the one guy that gave me a chance at a very young age, The fat man, he called himself, he probably kept me from going the wrong direction at that time and gave me a goal, soon I was training cooks for a big company and later started my own restaurant and dabbling in the business many many years, I started Brunch with the foods I enjoy preparing...NO gourmet!! Just simple all made from scratch foods, the list is to long to list and much more to come down the pike..
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