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For femkederoas- 5 questions
Aug. 2nd, 2010 11:33 am1. Cooking was, I think, your first love? Do you think about ever going back into a professional kitchen?
I have been cooking since I almost cant remember when. My grandmother didn't like cooking (except Easter and Christmas) so we ate out in restaurants almost every night. When I was old enough and had earned my junior cooking badge, she let me make my own dinner. The deal was if I cooked it, I had to eat it. I ate a lot of bad food (and subsequently got better faster).
As for the professional kitchen, not any time soon. It is very hard work and very little pay. Even as a sous-chef I spent many hours scrubbing out oven, when we had to send the hourly people home to reduce over all costs. I love the way a kitchen move and really miss the kitchen dance. But for now the SCA offers me a place to cook on a large scale. And I have a big enough fencing family that I get to entertain regularly.
2. Cooking ---> web mastery. That's rather an unusual shift. How did it happen?
It was actually the other way around. I was 3 years into a pre-med program when I fell in love with graphic design. That seems like eons ago. Then in the early 2000's when the software industry went BOOM, I survived 3 rounds of layoff, and then it was my turn. At a turning point, I went back to school for culinary. Worked that industry for 5 years while slowly slipping back into software, where I am today.
But think about it. UI and cooking are essentially presentation of "things". People eat with their eyes. You have to be able to build food that is visually appealing. So my art/design background is perfect for food presentation. The attention to details allowed me to climb the kitchen hierarchy pretty quickly. They really aren't different fields, just different mediums.
3. Can you be seduced to the Dark German side if we try hard enough?
Maybe...
4. Disney Cruise?
Not a big fan of boats. Though I would like to go to Disney Hong Kong and Disney Tokyo.
5. Sometimes I feel like you're sort of a lost sibling. Do you have real ones?
I only have 1/2 siblings. There are about 8 of us. Dad was quite prolific. But they divorced when I was just 2. And I was raised an only child.
I have been cooking since I almost cant remember when. My grandmother didn't like cooking (except Easter and Christmas) so we ate out in restaurants almost every night. When I was old enough and had earned my junior cooking badge, she let me make my own dinner. The deal was if I cooked it, I had to eat it. I ate a lot of bad food (and subsequently got better faster).
As for the professional kitchen, not any time soon. It is very hard work and very little pay. Even as a sous-chef I spent many hours scrubbing out oven, when we had to send the hourly people home to reduce over all costs. I love the way a kitchen move and really miss the kitchen dance. But for now the SCA offers me a place to cook on a large scale. And I have a big enough fencing family that I get to entertain regularly.
2. Cooking ---> web mastery. That's rather an unusual shift. How did it happen?
It was actually the other way around. I was 3 years into a pre-med program when I fell in love with graphic design. That seems like eons ago. Then in the early 2000's when the software industry went BOOM, I survived 3 rounds of layoff, and then it was my turn. At a turning point, I went back to school for culinary. Worked that industry for 5 years while slowly slipping back into software, where I am today.
But think about it. UI and cooking are essentially presentation of "things". People eat with their eyes. You have to be able to build food that is visually appealing. So my art/design background is perfect for food presentation. The attention to details allowed me to climb the kitchen hierarchy pretty quickly. They really aren't different fields, just different mediums.
3. Can you be seduced to the Dark German side if we try hard enough?
Maybe...
4. Disney Cruise?
Not a big fan of boats. Though I would like to go to Disney Hong Kong and Disney Tokyo.
5. Sometimes I feel like you're sort of a lost sibling. Do you have real ones?
I only have 1/2 siblings. There are about 8 of us. Dad was quite prolific. But they divorced when I was just 2. And I was raised an only child.
