on the other hand

[dodgechargerfan]

I've got a glove. no wait. That's a Robin Williams joke, isn't it?

what I mean to say is rather than the crappy fact that someone swiped our snowman, there is some good news here.. Interesting anyway.

My daughter is going to meet some celebrity chefs tomorrow. Her culinary teacher called tonight and asked if it would be okay.

Anna has a bunch of shows on the Food network and Food TV.

They are going to meet a kid that is sick with leukemia. My daughter worked a charity event with the boy's mother.

In January, she gets to go to charity dinner and meet Michael Smith - another food network/ TV star.

I'm really trying to push her past the star struck point and get her to talk to these people and make friends with them. She really does well when someone mentors her. Imagine if she could have say, Anna, as as mentor. She'd love that. And they live nearby, so it's not an impossibility.

It's funny, we're getting glowing reports from her culinary teacher and we wonder if he dialled the wrong number. I have yet to see her really cook. I had her peel potatoes last week for our dinner and I swear we're still finding peels around the kitchen. She loves it though - I guess. It seems it's only at school and work though - not at home.

[/end proud dad rant] :dance:

 

[BootHead]

on the other hand? no, that's just a smarmy Randy Travis tune.
Google if you gotta, the u-toob vid looks out of place here.

I took Home-ec whenever the opportunity presented itself, and didn't conflict with shop. No, the old people never had a clue, it was all consumed on the bus ride home.

 

[dustergal]

That's cool!.....of course having no TV I have never heard of them.

Good for her.

 

[restoman]

Michael Smith? Isn't he the tall dorky looking guy with the ponytail? Has or had, a show from Nova Scotia?
My son likes to cook as well as bake. He must be following in his Mom's footsteps for the cooking thing. She keeps telling him "you meet the right girl and she finds out you can cook, you're golden."
The baking part he gets from me. I miss high school.

 

[dodgechargerfan]

I think that's the same guy - but he's from P.E.I.
Poe tay toe
Puh tah tow

The meet and greet went well. She's got a picture with them and they signed her cookbook. Extremely nice people. The idea behind this thing was that the boy with leukemia wanted to cook for them and he got to do that - with a little help from his sisters, but it was his menu. That's pretty cool.

The cooking thing runs in the family, I guess.
My brother is a chef.
His son is a chef.
My other brother's daughter is a chef. Michael Olson taught her actually and remembers her.
My other brother's brother could have been a chef but changed gears once he got in to the apprenticeship program. Now he's my steel supplier... and that's a good thing.
Me and all of my brothers worked in a kitchen at one point - not the same one, but some of us did work together.
My uncle was a cook - although long before I ever knew him.
My sister has married a couple of chefs. One is fairly well known in Toronto. Jamie Kennedy (not the guy on TV).

I enjoy the cooking part, but I hate the clean up, and since I really learned what I know in a professional kitchen, I got spoiled for a regular kitchen in a house. I just can't do the same thing - not that I was ever a chef or even a cook really, but lots of prep work and banquet prep offers lots of opportunity to learn. Usually, in large quantities.

Even when I was in the pizza shop, I could prep, make and cook pizzas for the entire day - make the dough, prep the toppings, make the sauce. Everything. Ya'd think I could make a nice pizza at home, but I can't... or won't.. it's much easier to pick up the hone and heck I don't even do that anymore now that I can order online.

When my daughter said she wanted to be a chef, all of the chefs in the family said, "NO YOU DON'T!"

In the end though, if someone has an interest in cooking, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to encourage them to follow a path to a culinary career. It can be a rough and tough job, but everyone's gotta eat and someone's gotta cook the food. So, there shouldn't be a problem finding work.

 

[giowest]

I wish her the best Dave, When they have a drive to a subject keep pushing.
Who knows, could be another Rachel Ray in the making Eh?.