Good evening, friends and neighbors.When I was culinary school, I had a chef instructor who didn’t just teach pastry arts and baking- she also taught how to put them down and walk away.
Business and Entrepreneurship
Monkey Mind- Inspiration and Creation
Good evening, friends and neighbors.
My mind is a weird little creature- it’s a little counter-intuitive to discipline, or to make do tricks- like settle down when I need it to.
My mind is a weird little creature- it’s a little counter-intuitive to discipline, or to make do tricks- like settle down when I need it to.
Sometimes, however, the trick is getting it to talk.
OH GOD NO NOT LIKE THATDefending Dessert
Define Your Limitations- Not The Other Way Around
Good evening, friends and neighbors!
I was standing at the range in the cafe the other day. On Wednesdays, Victoria and I work together, and she tends to have me do the day-to-day production while she does macarons, special orders, and R+D’s new recipes. One of my duties, therefore, is to make the savory galette for morning bake to finish.
Standing Still In The Storm
Good evening, friends and neighbors.
When I was 13, my family would spend the evenings watching the original Iron Chef on TV. I was mesmerized watching the cooks and chefs fling food, whip, and wheel around each other- a ballet of orchestrated chaos that I’d learn to call “the dance” 15 years later.
In the center, like a stationary whirlwind, would sometimes stand my favorite Iron Chef- Masaharu Morimoto. Barely looking up, but barking instructions in Japanese to his cooks- and simply KNOWING they would be done. He called the dance, and controlled the storm from its eye.
“I’m not a fighter, but in my mind I’m fighting every day. ‘What’s new? What am I doing?’ I’m fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren’t samurai, but my soul is.”
The Black Hat Baker 