Kitchen Porn

I work in a great restaurant, but i haven’t always been so fortunate. My ascent from places that merely existed to ones that thrive has been a six year journey littered with highs and lows. The past few years I’ve been lucky enough to have a few days off surrounding the Christmas holiday. In years [...]

Some days in the kitchen are downright awful, looking more like the first few rounds of a Rocky fight stretched across ten hours, which is basically The Passion Of The Christ. I’m not saying we’re Jesus or anything like that, I’m saying we’re Jim Cavaziel as Jesus. It’s different.  Anyways, I sometimes find solace in [...]

I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but over the course of the past few years I’ve found myself spending more and more time standing in front of huge bins of flour and sugar. I once fancied myself a completely one-dimensional meat cook, completely unwilling to step outside of the delicious and savoury box that [...]

Without fail, whenever I tell people that I’m a cook I hear any combination of “oooh”/”ahhh” from whoever I’ve just broken the news to. They’re excited, and I can almost hear the wheels turning in their heads. They’re referring to everything they’ve learned from the Food Network, imagining exquisite meals that I’ve made for decadent [...]