Give Kids the World

This event was actually "Give kids the world" annual gala. This was held once a year at the Peabody hotel in Orlando. They raised millions of dollars and for me to be behind the scenes working in the kitchen to make this event happen has truly been an experience. I am currently working on a video for this event and will post it up within the next week. To get out there and volunteer for something..anything, you should try it...never know what you can learn.

I'm sorry about lack of updates

My culinary journey has braught me to a stand still. Currently im in Academic classes so cooking as far as JWU is sort of at a standstill. I recently participated in something called "JWU Iron Chef" with a good friend of mine, i will try and find pictures and than post something.
I will also be going to Orlando to an event called "Give the Kids the World" its a BIG charity event, and i will also post a long blog about that, besides that my culinary blog will be a little boring until towards the end of May in which case the summer time will begin and than real experimentation can begin.
I want to start buying chemicals and start experimenting, for this i will need my Tiger who is way more advanced than me, unfortunately he too is doing his own thing back home. Once the dust has settled i will be sure to update my blog spot on the normal bases like i am suppose to...
So i leave you guys with this


STAY TUNED =)

Learning the proper way to serve

Cooking food is GREAT knowing how to cook food is even better, but without the skills to serve food your restaurant or even establishment can't survive. In Essentials to Dining room students learn how to properly serve food. The unique part about Johnson and Wales is that because there are lab segments and Serving is one of them, when its time to serve food, you serve food that another class has made. Under the instruction of Mr.Messal we learned all about alignment of silver wear, and if one thing was not in align than he would deduct points from your grade. A restaurant can have the best food but if the host, servers and bus people aren't good than the entire restaurant could fail.

Grilled Pizza????

Something new that I learned that wasn’t known to me previously was the process of grilling pizza. Such a technique that seemed to be brainless produced a flavor that wasn’t familiar with me when it came to pizza. It gave the pizza sort of a smoky flavor. We began this process by making basic pizza dough, than added a little oil and grilled it. After that we added pizza sauce and applied toppings. The odd part is that in that class my eyes were opened to a whole new light of pizza toppings and sauce. From basic tomato to béchamel. We applied several toppings which are shown below.

Bascially

Johnson and Wales doesn’t only teach you new and exciting things, they know that none of this would be possible if they didn’t teach you the basics. Here is chef Rouch displaying how to align a knife. You must hold the knife at 45 degree angle to do this. Something that a lot of people don’t know that the only way to really sharpen a knife is to use a sharpening stone. The hand tool is only used to align the the blade, not to sharpen the knife. The basics are also displayed in these pictures like how to peel a carrot and peel an onion.

Wine tasting

In my opinion of the more important classes was Essentials of Dining room. I will post my overview of the class on a later blog once i upload the pictures. We did a wine tasting, it was actually pretty cool. My very first wine tasting ever and we had sheets of paper with differnt profiles on it ranging from colors to scents to tastes of the wines themselves. We also had a plate of different fruits and cheeses to help bring out the taste of the selection of wine.
Wine is a very unique beverage, ranging from a variety of flavors and scents, i thought it was made with differnt blackberries and blueberries etc...turns out that the soil in which it was cultivated has a great impact on the flavor profile of that respective wine. That my friend is the very basis on what i want my career to be.

My apologies

Dealing with class and projects than work and other college things i haven't had the opportunity to blog in a while. But im pushing foward to try and blog atleast once a week.