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Hello, Everyone!
My name is Laurie and I am missing the community and camraderie of Chefs, so I thought I would hang out here from time to time.
My quick history - until recently been an Exec. Chef with a very large private club and resort corporation for the past 4 or so years, prior to that ran a bakery, free standing high end restaurants, wrote the newsletters, taught apprentices, did stage classes at local conventions, represented the restaurants in the media (print, television, radio) through interviews, classes and cooking live, had the great fortune to go to the IKA HOGA as an apprentice when that area was still West Germany
Basically, lots of fun stuff with lots of great Chefs who taught me everything I know by kicking my butt everyday. You know the drill
I am currently married to a MARINE and I adore my husband and am very proud to be his wife and in the company of such an awesome group of people. Actually, one of my first and meanest Chefs was a Marine and I learned a lot from him. I can't recall if I learned more when I was hacked off or when I was calm, but you know how that goes. :chef: Been married a short time and for now, we have decided that with his projected schedule of schooling and deployments for the next 4-5 years that my days of working 12-16-20 hour shifts are over for the time being. I need to look for alternatives.
In the area I am currently at, there are a lot of great restaurants to the North of me, and it just kills me that traffic is so bad that it would literally take me more than an hour (sometimes 2-3, if my friends are correct) to get to work. I thought I would take a bit of a vacation, and practice being a good housewife (to which my husband chokes and laughs at that idea) while he is stationed here. Got a little bored and so now I teach classes at Semper Fit on the base, teach classes in homes to local culinary enthusiasts, volunteer for various activities, and this week will start creating and moderating the culinary section of a website for Military Spouses.
In about 1-2 months I will be moving to the Pensacola area for a couple of years and HOPEFULLY will be close enough to some really cool places that I can at least work during the day either learning something new or doing something fun. I lost most of my "IT girl chef ego" a few years back when I realized I was taking life so seriously I forgot to smile now and again, so I am pretty open minded about what I do next in this field. I think it would be a blast to learn about catering, or a whole different style of cuisine or heck, even style of Chef.
That's about it for me. Nice ta meetya :chef:
Laurie
My name is Laurie and I am missing the community and camraderie of Chefs, so I thought I would hang out here from time to time.
My quick history - until recently been an Exec. Chef with a very large private club and resort corporation for the past 4 or so years, prior to that ran a bakery, free standing high end restaurants, wrote the newsletters, taught apprentices, did stage classes at local conventions, represented the restaurants in the media (print, television, radio) through interviews, classes and cooking live, had the great fortune to go to the IKA HOGA as an apprentice when that area was still West Germany
Basically, lots of fun stuff with lots of great Chefs who taught me everything I know by kicking my butt everyday. You know the drill I am currently married to a MARINE and I adore my husband and am very proud to be his wife and in the company of such an awesome group of people. Actually, one of my first and meanest Chefs was a Marine and I learned a lot from him. I can't recall if I learned more when I was hacked off or when I was calm, but you know how that goes. :chef: Been married a short time and for now, we have decided that with his projected schedule of schooling and deployments for the next 4-5 years that my days of working 12-16-20 hour shifts are over for the time being. I need to look for alternatives.
In the area I am currently at, there are a lot of great restaurants to the North of me, and it just kills me that traffic is so bad that it would literally take me more than an hour (sometimes 2-3, if my friends are correct) to get to work. I thought I would take a bit of a vacation, and practice being a good housewife (to which my husband chokes and laughs at that idea) while he is stationed here. Got a little bored and so now I teach classes at Semper Fit on the base, teach classes in homes to local culinary enthusiasts, volunteer for various activities, and this week will start creating and moderating the culinary section of a website for Military Spouses.
In about 1-2 months I will be moving to the Pensacola area for a couple of years and HOPEFULLY will be close enough to some really cool places that I can at least work during the day either learning something new or doing something fun. I lost most of my "IT girl chef ego" a few years back when I realized I was taking life so seriously I forgot to smile now and again, so I am pretty open minded about what I do next in this field. I think it would be a blast to learn about catering, or a whole different style of cuisine or heck, even style of Chef.
That's about it for me. Nice ta meetya :chef:
Laurie
