tin chef

accidental adventures in culinary school

clickychick

clickychick
Location
seattle, Washington,
Bio
(currently unemployed) designer of spaces. eater of morsels. imbiber of cocktails. traveler of lands. and at age 39, i am entering culinary school. let the games begin!

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 8:21PM

do you…enjoy knives?


 My very first “real” knife was a gift to me, mostly borne out of pity.
 
I was 21-years-old, living in New York City (okay, well, living in Hoboken, New Jersey, but working in New York City), and somehow getting by on the astronomical salary of $19,000 per year.  I lived
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File this under:  Things I Didn’t Know About Being a Cook/Chef.  (It’s a long and growing list, trust me.) 
 
On the first season, first episode of Top Chef, I was oddly shocked to find out that chefs wander around with a satchel full of brutally sharp steel slung over their/
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SEPTEMBER 25, 2009 2:43PM

woman in uniform


Can I tell you something?  I’m not sure how I feel about this whole uniform thing.

I’ve had more than my share of oddball jobs in my life—raspberry picker, front-desk jockey, proofreader—but aside from a little blue square nametag during my tenure at The Gap in college (“Would you like soc

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 7:12AM

and so it begins


here’s a story to get us started.

this time last year,  i was the senior lead of an interior design studio at a small architecture firm here in seattle.  i had joined almost two years prior, at the height of the boom times, to help them grow a business.  and grow

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OCTOBER 8, 2009 10:39PM

Week One: Welcome to the jungle.


Okay, so I fell into a bit of a black hole.  Apologies there.  First I thought I would let all of the first week’s experiences sort of marinate (witty food humor there) and then I would write something pithy (ha, more humor), beyond “First we did this, then we did that.â€Â 

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So I said that I would be better.  I am not a notorious breaker of promises—at least I think I’m not—but it’s been a longer lapse again than I would like.  It’s hard to believe we’re already through two of our five stations for the first quarter, but the good news

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