My daughter started culinary school and had a very bad experience. The chef who was supposed to be teaching these kids spent more time shopping and running errands than she did in the lab or class room. I went rounds with the Dean, but he apparently he felt had no choice but to keep this chef on.
Now she is in business school and then is going back to a different culinary school. She wants to be a pastry chef in the end. She'd like to open a little bistro style coffee shop/bakery someday. A lot of small town America lost their downtown commerce to huge malls, but are trying to revitalize them and she'd like to set up shop there.
I've always had a knack I guess. A lot of people follow recipes, but I just throw stuff together and it makes my wife mad, lol. I can determine what flavor I'm looking for in a meat or soup or sauce and just "get there". I think most people would do better if they loosened up and stopped trying to follow recipes to the "T".
I watched my Grandma just throw stuff together, and she taught my Mom. We had set meal times growing up, and if you missed dinner, it could be found in the fridge, not on a plate in the oven. So I learned to fend for myself early on, hehe, I mean who could be bothered with coming inside to eat growing up? There were way more important things for teenage boys to do than eat!
I'm not a big fan of TV, but I do watch History, NatGeo or Fox News sometimes, and I like watching Alton Brown and his scientific approach on cooking.
