A Day In The Life Of An American Culinary Student
2/08/01
- Put in 5 hours tonight. I was pretty busy and everything I made was new to me. Started with cinnamon dough we are going to use for heart shaped linzer cookies on the Valentine's menu. Next I made an almond jaconde that we use as a base of our c...
2/17/01
- Didn't make it in at 5am to work with the baker, maybe in a couple weeks. Got a bit of a break this weekend. The pate a choux and fig tarts were already made so I moved onto baking the galettes, assembling and baking the brioche and making the ...
2/19/01
- My week started out with getting my dehydration emergency room bill (see 12/25/00 journal entry). $800 for two liters of IV fluid, ouch. I LOVE medical insurance.
Mid week I was at home cleaning out a file of miscellaneous papers and came a...
3/1/01
- Tonight was the first night I actually felt like a cook. Just as the Chef said last week, he threw me on the grill and I worked with the line cook that has been at the restaurant the longest (3 years). My night consisted of chicken and pork skew...
03/06/01
- I got to the restaurant around 5pm and started helping with the hotline prep work. Spent the first20-30 minutes deseeding and chopping olives. Grillorders started coming in shortly after I finished theolives. Tonight I worked with a cook that ...
03/12/01
-Took a bit of a break this week, March Madness got the better of me. My schedule will be changing quite a bit in the next few weeks. Because I'm leaving for school in June I want to spend time with the many friends I have in the area. I was luc...
03/19/01
- Didn't feel like working the hotline tonight so I spent the evening upstairs making pastries. Started with pastry cream. It is very important to not skip the sugar listed on the recipe. If you do, you make a second batch. The second batch of p...
3/29/01
- Every Friday the Pastry Chef puts a special dessert on the menu and tonight he had me experiment with a chocolate tart recipe hoping that it turns out good enough to be the special. As of my leaving the restaurant Thursday night the tart was go...
4/11/01
- The economic downturn hits home. Received notice at my day job that I'm being laid off May 11th. Fortunately, I was quitting the end of May anyway. On top of that, the restaurant has been extremely slow so any work I do takes away from the cook...
4/28/01
- Been sick all week. I think the 40 eighth graders I took to DC last week wore me out. Was able to get out off the couch this morning for a few hours, but ran out of steam quickly. I was able to make apple and banana chips used as dessert decora...
