The chef that I am doing my internship under just won Best Chef

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in our local alternative weekly newspaper. They are having their Best of party tonight to announce the winners before the issue comes out tomorrow.

I can't tell you how much fun I have had working under him the last two weeks. It hardly seems like work and I really like the staff too.

Right now I am working from about 9 to 4 or 5 on Sundays to prep for brunch, brunch and then prep for dinner. Then I work Monday and Tuesday after I get off work which means I get there by about 5 and work to 8 or 10.

I've learned a lot and we are rolling out the new fall menu gradually this week in prep for the official launch next week I think. But more than anything else, I haven't made any major mistakes and mistakes have been minimal - period. So that is a good thing. But I now know that this 'old fart' from culinary school can keep up with the young whipper snappers and sometimes even beat them at their own game.

And the chef is very particular about plating and I think he knows that I get it and care about not only the food being right but also the plating.

I've mainly been doing the cold foods or garde manger, desserts, and prep work but next week - the fry station!

I'm helping him with a catering gig this Saturday.

 
Cathy - this is also a pretty good diet plan too....

I don't have time to eat before I go and I just get a little leftover bite of steak here, a mussel there, a calamari ring, etc. So I get little tastes of food with great flavor and it satisfies me and it's got to be lower calorie/carbs/all that stuff than what I probably would eat.

And running up and down the steps to get to the cooler and the dry storage doesn't hurt either.

Plus I get to 'cook out' my frustrations of the day and go home so tired that it helps overcome my restless leg syndrome pain and I get real sleep.

So it really has been one of those sort of things that I think might have happened for a reason.

 
Congrats! What an accomplishment.... plus, like you said, a good exercise and diet plan smileys/smile.gif

 
Awesome! What great news! I would imagine that he obviously does not need alot of help with his

catering gig on Sat. Huge Kudos that he selected you to be apart of his small team. Way to Go!!

 
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