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Serious Eats: Talk

Through the eyes of an amateur.

Posted by cwindom0117, March 26, 2009

I'm 24 years old and although every job i have ever had involved food in one way or another, food has only been the what my life revolves around for about 2 years. There are literally thousands of professional chefs in the world and the large number of celebrity chef reflects that. The growing number of cooking shows and the chers we see on t.v has helped to boost the interest that everyday people are starting to show. In one way or another food affects everybodys lives. For people like my self who aspire to be one of the best it if important for us to know the history and influences of the ones that came before us. You can literally got on google, type a name of a chef and have any number of pages with biographys, autobiography and interviews that help us understand what inspired them. I have my inspirations just like you all do. But when i read about a chef that i look-up to admire who grew up with views and lifestyles similar to my own, i cant help but feel some sort of connection. The more a chef has in common with me the more apt i am to pay attention to their careers and i will obviously learn more from them cause i pay more attention and respect what they say and do. So i spend alot of time reading interviews and articles. Its fascinating to know what chefs have gone through. But memorys fade so asomeone talking about what they have done will only be a partial truth. incomplete. i believe small things matter. Chefs do things a certain way and most of the time they cant tell u much about y. they never say what they though before they learned something. Instead of the story about what they have done i want to hear the story of what someone is doing on their journey to becomming a chef. but i cant find that story. So im going to give you mine. i believe it could be inspirational to amatuers like myself to know what other amatuers are going through. working together and sharing our knowledge. chef to chef. Amatuer to amatuer. as amatuers we can only benefit

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