Day seventeen: Pork, my arch enemy, returns
This, my last week of the first semester of my final term, is dedicated to pork. Sure, there is supposed to be a lobster finale. But the bulk of the remainder of this semester is all pork. And not just any pork. Oh no! Pork in a million and one different ways, from pork butt [...]
How much do you really know about restaurants?
In my last post I posted the questions from a third term test from school. If you ever eat in restaurants, this really highlighted some of the ways your friendly server tries to get you to spend more, more, more. Quite the eye-opener. And if you ever dream of opening a restaurant, this test was [...]
Day sixteen: Ever eat in a restaurant or dream of opening one?
The focus in our lecture has shifted (finally!) from food costing to other issues surrounding restaurant service, namely marketing, customer service, and menu design. Today, there was a test on that knowledge. Below is the test (and, yes, the answers will follow). If you ever eat in a restaurant, then this test will be an [...]
Day fifteen: Where we revisit our old nemesis; pork
The sheer amount of information we learn at this school is incredible. So much so, that you can tell that a helluva lot of thought has been poured into all sorts of details surrounding our education. Thought, yes, but execution? We have yet to be given a syllabus for this, our third, and last, term. [...]
Culinary school student takes a holiday
You ever eat at a restaurant in the middle of nowhere and have an incredibly spectacular meal? I did. You ever throw caution to the wind and order a dish you’ve never had before only to be blown away by how amazing it was? I did. You ever yearn for a treat so badly you [...]
Day fourteen: Test your knowledge of beer and wine
Well, as I promised in my last post, there was a quiz today. It covered two topics: Beverages and labor. I won’t bother you with the labor portion (dry stuff, indeed) but I do have the first eleven questions of the quiz, the ones that focus on alcohol, below, so you can test your knowledge [...]
Day thirteen: Where we say “hello” and “good bye” to rabbit
Got home early, too early: The mail carrier hasn’t come yet. Ah, what price the stunning luck of catching my ride home exactly on time? Of course, there was a minor mishap. I accidentally misdirected tourists who wanted to see a local landmark. I only sent them one stop out of their way, and it [...]
And welcome to another installment of a fun little cooking lesson I like to call: Culinary School Cooking Methods
(Okay, so the name is clumsy. Sigh. I’m busy cooking over here!) We kicked this off with a fun segment on dry cooking methods, including grilling and sautéing (sautéing and other fat-based dry heat coking methods drove Asian Guy crazy because fat = liquid to him and he could not understand why they were not [...]
