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Day 39: A Trip to Wine Country.
Breaking Chef news: Chef Dominique shaved OFF his mustache! He no longer has the Captain Hook facial hair going on. I hope it grows back...

Eliana
Oct 7, 20132 min read


Day 38: Flounder, My Way.
Three words: Flounder Your Way. At around 2 am last night, I woke up and all I remember is that I was thinking about how I was going to...

Eliana
Oct 4, 20134 min read


Day 37: Italian Pastas, YES PLEASE!
We’ll we finally landed in Italy today and for the most part I was pretty impressed (we didn’t actually travel there for all those...

Eliana
Oct 3, 20133 min read


Day 32: Adios Pastries, It's Been Real.
I don’t know if I am sad or happy about the fact that today was our last day of pastries. Now it’s back to culinary and I’m a bit scared...

Eliana
Sep 25, 20133 min read


Day 31: Short, But Sweet.
Sorry for the delay. I was busy attending the International Culinary Center Career fair where I met some fabulous potential...

Eliana
Sep 24, 20132 min read


Day 30: Taking This to Pound Town.
Two weeks into level 2 already and this is culinary gig is flying by. The fact that I’ve almost been here two months is hilarious, but my...

Eliana
Sep 23, 20134 min read


Day 29: Making Souffles, like a Boss.
Mousses and Soufflés were the name of the game today! All it really takes to make is egg whites, flour, butter, sugar, flavoring (cheese,...

Eliana
Sep 20, 20133 min read


Day 28: Sugar High.
Day two of pastries and I’m still high from all the sugar. There was a point in the day where I was licking the soufflé mixture out of...

Eliana
Sep 19, 20133 min read


Day 27: Channeling Mrs. Doubtfire, again.
For the first two mornings of the level, I would bring chef his coffee from the machine. I could have sworn that he said no cream and a...

Eliana
Sep 18, 20134 min read


Day 26: Eggs, Everyway.
I’m in an egg coma. I have never worked with so many eggs in my entire life. As a class, we must have gone through 20 dozen eggs and I’m...

Eliana
Sep 17, 20135 min read


Day 25: Intestines and Livers and Pate, Oh My!
Back from my visit at Harvard to see Stephen (hence why there was no day 24… sorry) and I was feeling quite chipper this morning. Chef...

Eliana
Sep 16, 20134 min read


Day 23: Roger Rabbit, I'm sorry.
Roger Rabbit. Bugs Bunny. Meggie my pet rabbit (who we had to give away when Nataly was born because she starting biting us…thanks a lot...

Eliana
Sep 12, 20134 min read


Day 22: Some Southern Up In Here.
Every morning, we come into the kitchen and have to choose an “island” to work out with a partner. Depending on what time you come in...

Eliana
Sep 11, 20134 min read


Day 17: Beef Me Up.
After having left class feeling defeated yesterday and pretty much shedding tears in Chef Jeff’s face, I got back on my high horse and...

Eliana
Sep 4, 20134 min read


Day 3: Class Field Trip.
Rhonda Marie here reporting from New York City once again. Yes, I had to wear the hair net again, but I’m going to figure out how to pin...

Eliana
Aug 14, 20135 min read
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