Cooking has been a life long interest. I grew up watching the Julia Child, The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Ker and The frugal Gourmet with Jeff Smith. As a child I often pretended that I was a host for a cooking show. When I was about three my brother (who is 3 years older than me) and I had a pretend cooking show in the pantry. As the story goes, I wanted to have a cooking show and he just wanted to get rid of food he didn’t want to eat. On a particular occasion I recall the mixing of many random ingredients such as dried spaghetti, peanut butter and spinach. My sense for what goes together had clearly not developed yet. After I graduated High School I applied to the Culinary Institute of America, got accepted and then learned what the tuition was going to be. That obscenely high number deterred me from going to culinary school. Around the same time about two weeks I worked as a line cook in a local bar and grill. I really hated that. A lot. So I have resolved to not be a trained chef with a restaurant of my own. I want to continue to enjoy cooking. It is often quite cathartic for me and I would like to keep it that way.
