January 2012
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NomJitsu
Over the last semester, I’ve gotten close to my Food Prep class. They’re probably the best lab partners I’ve had in my life, and look forward to working with them in restaurants, on projects, in catering gigs, whatever. The material learned doesn’t compare to the camaraderie instilled with a group of budding culinary professionals.
It’s nice to toss ideas back and...
September 2011
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Lumpia. Homework.
A month into culinary school and I have time to write!!?!?!
Kind of. Homework. So I wrote about one of my favorite things: Lumpia. Some situations were embellished for the sake of storytelling. Anyone mentioned is fictitious, unless they call me twenty times a day, every day (love you Mom!)
Lumpia Story: The Rock & Roll Eggroll
Being latchkey kids with parents that worked all the time...
July 2011
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Proof Is In the Pudding... Or on the Mat
In the past year, I’ve gotten gotten married, changed gyms, and started culinary school. In my experience, dynamic decisions make for much more enriching results.
Be bold. Be decisive.
While a decisive attitude is not always the case with me (I feel this will be a lifelong project) I think it’s already played out into my Foodjitsu in recent months.
In my cooking world, I’ve...
May 2010
2 posts
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“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler...
I occasionally find myself out of town on visits to family. We’re spread across the globe (which makes for wonderfully interesting food talk). But like all addicts in need of their “Jits Fix,” I scour Google for local MMA or Jiu Jitsu gyms and send friendly emails to gym owners asking if it were possible for me to train there for a class or two. I’ve found that the Jiu Jitsu/MMA community in the...
“As you think, so shall you become.”
“Pate’ a choux” is a fancy [Read: French] for a cream puff base. It’s also the same kind of dough used for éclairs and other forms of tasty goodness. A few months back, I held a dessert-themed Food Club [Think: Fight Club, but with edibles and no blood… unless it’s steak.] The whole point of Food Club is to “cook outside of the box,” meaning that the dish you bring to Food Club is something you...
April 2010
2 posts
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.”
– Clemenza from The Godfather.
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Food Jitsu
I haven’t written for myself in the past few months. Lately, it’s been copy for e-newsletters, reviews of restaurants, even photo captions. While fulfilling in the sense that, yes, I did write something on X day and got paid for it, I didn’t write for myself.
You see, writing allows me to express myself in ways that I wouldn’t be able to during my normal day at work. I...