product

So I've started to cover the unsavory, unglamorous, stressful aspects of the job. It's easy to do since most of these posts come right after work. I'm usually winding down reglecting on the night. Successes and failures as well as just the desire to wrap it up and go home. To relax and get ready for the next day. If I could post periodically throughtout the day I'm sure the content would be quite different. But the predominant thing would be the product. A joy that comes directly from the raw ingredients, how they smell, how they look, taste, respond to heat, etc. Taking that near perfect item and preparing, framing it and serving it is the true thrill. Like most career changers I got into this because of the romantic notions of food and the craft of cooking itself. Of course the adrenaline and process of line cooking, cooking at speed, has become it's own addiction. The product is still the overwhelming motivater. Seeing the seasons change, the product change, is thrilling.