After about a week of reading and doing nothing culinary, I started to prepare to get back to school. I don't return to school until next Thursday, but I am practicing for whats ahead. In fact, I recently catered for this book club my mother holds once a month and I still have that magic touch. I made Betty Davis Eyes (red seedless grapes covered in goat cheese and crushed pistachios) and My own version of Brushetta with a lime marinated herb and tomato topping. Everyone at that book club loved my cooking so much that they ask me to cook again at the next book club meeting next month.
With that in mind, I can surly say that I still got it but it would take more then just cooking to get back into it. I am also reading this new book I got called "Medium Raw" by Anthony Bourdain. This book is kind of a newer version of "Kitchen Confidential" but more detailed of how he got his start. So far he just tells about how messed up his childhood is and his time in Caribian where he almost killed himself. Now you might be wondering how this is related to cooking, that is because for some people; cooking is a second chance to make up for what they done wrong in the past. Take Anthony Bourdain for example, he used to be a drug addict and an alcoholic; but then he became the Executive chef for Les Halle in New York, a famous writer, and a travel host for an amazing show on the Travel Chanel. So to put it in perceptive of a culinary student, cooking can be a long, rough road to glory and satisfaction.
For now I bid a-do until a new chapter unfolds.
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