A Day In The Life Of An American Culinary Student
9/17/01
- The other half of the class took their practical and we all took our written final exam. I'm pretty sure I got at least 90%. After the exam I moved on to production. We had to get espagnole, vegetable, veal and white beef stock out before the p...
9/25/01- About half way through Continental Cuisine. Today I was assigned the lemon orzo. At the end of making it I was salt and peppering and I gave the pepper just a little too much of a squeeze. Fortunately, the pepper easily lifts off with a small lay...
10/01/01- Continental Cuisine was the same as it ever was. I was assigned the eggplant maite, which is a thin slice of chorizo sandwiched between two thin slices of eggplant, then deep-fried in a batter. Not very exciting to make, but pretty tasty.
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10/9/01 - Quite a dull day for me in the kitchen. My assignment was Boiled New Potatoes with Dill. Cut them up, boiled ‘em, drained ‘em, added clarified butter and dill and off to the steam table they went.
Worked the pantry at the restaurant tonight....
10/15/01- My assignment for the day was Marinated Breast of Chicken with a Roasted Garlic Custard Tart and Roasted Pepper Coulis. Not a tough assignment, just a lot to make. Not much too talk about today. Made my food and went on my way.
10/16/01- It j...
10/22/01- Dining Room continues. Unfortunately I don't have a lot to write about with this class. We have a short lecture, the instructor raises his voice a lot and then we run the dining room for an hour or so.
10/24/01- Took the day off from school....
10/29/01- Started my morning with the assignment of "busser." That meant I was neither a waiter taking orders or a runner delivering food, which was fine with me. All I was responsible for was the butter, bread, water and clearing tables. My team of three...
11/5/01- Never really thought I would say, "I wish I were back in Dining Room class." It was our first day of Introduction to Baking and Pastry and this chef is going to be hard to work with. Our only assignment for the day was to gather our mise en place...
11/12/01- The assignments of the day were blueberry pie and soft rolls. I think our group is getting better with forming dough. Our rolls looked (and tasted) very good. We had to tie double and...
11/27/01
-If animals were not meant to be eaten, they wouldn’t be divided into primal parts. First day of Skills of Meatcutting and man is it cold. I think its 9 degrees outside today. According to my thermometer it’s 53 in the classroom. I w...
