I need a restaurant job ASAP
A van pulled out of an ally way speeding towards the exit into the bike lane not looking left, I slid my breaks and slid under it (luckily I wear a helmet because I am not stupid and come from a Medical family and was a CNA before in a trauma unit and wanted to be a nurse..I couldn't do with the horrific things I saw and became a cook to Chef instead).
Soo..I don't get any help with anything, had to resign from my job that I loved because you can't be a Chef with a broken arm. I'm not trying to paint a sob story, I will always work my butt off, but things have gotten harder.
If ANYONE knows a full time kitchen position for someone who has cooked for Anthony Bourdain, has traveled the world, was taught by Steve Toso (French laundry) and Biba Caggiano (famous Italian TV Chef) as a young adult, knows every cuisine under the sun and will work really hard, please let me know.
I am working with this injury and had a interview with a place that usually takes a week to decide, and staged and they hired me on the spot and brought me to do mother's day brunch the next morning, did fantastic, everyone loved me...but they didn't tell me that hours were on a "Hierarchy scale". I can't live off of 20 hours a week. I need full time..
I can do it, will do it, and I think I am a pretty happy person, I actually like cooking and teaching what I know, it makes me feel good to help people out in whichever way I can.
The work sucks sometimes and I just want to feed you something wonderful.
Oh, my dish for Anthony Bourdain was this thing I made from all the local northern California food items I knew about by just traveling around: gnocchi not made from potato, but from ricotta cheese from a local farm (it's been a while, can remember) , so fluffy balls of cheese, flour and egg. Then I made a blue cheese sauce with point Reyes bleu, pouched bitter California endives in bogal white chardonnay wine (unoaked, a little more dry for a chardonnay) and topped it off with blue diamond almonds.
He came back and gave me a hug and asked me how I came up with it. I was younger and so embarrassed.