Wednesday, February 27, 2013
blogger response 4
food is an artistic pleasure to me simply because it is some many things that a seasons chef or just an ordinary cook can do with food :such as preparing flavorful dishes,soups sauces,and marinades for grilling or baking,or just setting up a buffet meal.After all every household needs a good cook.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Melvin Bray
EN001
Mr. Ackney
February 24, 2013
Essay
How to Eat to Live
Food
is an artistic pleasure to me simply because it is some many things that a
seasoned chef or just an ordinary cook can do with food; such as preparing
flavorful dishes, soups, sauces, and marinades for grilling or baking, or just
setting up a buffet meal. After all,
every household needs a good cook. What
I would recommend to my readers, in particularly, parents, that they would take
light cooking classes to enhance their kitchen skills and kitchen safety
procedures. Furthermore, having ten
years of working experience with chefs, like Tom Meyer of the Old Ebbitt Grill
Restaurant on 15th & G, Streets, N.W., Washington, DC, who is
also a C.I.A. graduate, the year unknown and Executive Chef Jean Louie of the
Watergate located near Virginia, Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC. These are just a few reputable chefs whom I
have gained a strong sense of knowledge from.
Mainly, I would like to focus on my
view of how and why my experience became lengthy. I used to work long days, arriving at
pre-dawn hours at the Marriott on Pookhill Road in Bethesda, Maryland as a
breakfast, banquet, and buffet chef. I, also,
worked the night at Shooter McGees’s Restaurant, located on Duke Street,
Alexandria, Virginia as a night closing chef.
First of all, I worked every station in the kitchen, in which, in
culinary terms is considered, the “back of the house”, and the dining area is
considered the “front of the house”.
Moving forward, food stations change according to the menu. Basically, considering the time of that day,
for example, the breakfast menu changes for brunch, lunch, and dinner – that includes
private parties as well. Actually, I
started from the dishwasher station and worked my way to the fryer station,
pasta, grill/broiler station, sautéing, baking and desserts and some light ice
carving. The Old Ebbitt Grill was a very
interesting place to work. Working with
a wide variety of ethnic groups, we had plenty of good days, as well as, bad
days. Good days simply means that
everything ran smooth that whole entire day.
Bad days consisted of waiters and waitresses faulty mistakes such as,
breaking dishes, confused orders for cooks to take and prepare in a timely fashion. One of the kitchen rules is that customers,
waiters, and waitresses are always right. (Yeah right) Some of my most enjoyable times was when we
did private parties. A person could meet
very interesting people from celebrities to just local talent in the area or
just passing through town.
Also the kitchen staff was very interesting
working with sous chefs like, Penny, better known as, skinny penny, Roger
Kaplan, and overweight chef, Bruce. They
all displayed unique talents and contributed to supporting Tom Meyer’s
direction in which he was going with this restaurant. Artistically,
it became more of a pleasure when myself and my cousin Vincent was working at
the Holiday Inn of Georgetown under Chef Lois.
She gave me total control over the kitchen upon her leaving for the
day. I had schedules, in which, I would
design big huge mirrors of fruit and vegetables for brunch and breakfast buffet
for Saturday and Sunday morning.
Lastly,
I would like to focus on a different aspect of food.
I would like to
recommend that someone in every household take basic cooking classes to enhance
their cooking knowledge and skills, whereas we as people or consumers have to
be more mindful of the types of places we shop for groceries such as, fruits,
meats, vegetables, breads and dairy products.
For example, sodium nitrate, though used as a preservative for
commercial hotdogs and lunchmeats, excessive consumption can cause cancer, also
to mention that animal products supplies all 8 essential amino acids while
vegetable sources do not supply all 8 amino acids and, thus, must be combined
to provide all essential amino acids together at the same meal. Prolonged consumption of poor diets can retard
brain development, modify the chemical composition of the brain and produce
long-term learning and behavioral defects.
It is imperative that (pork, bacon, sausage, and ham) be avoided at all
costs. Pork not only contains extremely
high amounts of saturated fats, but it also has worms that cannot be destroyed
by cooking. Pigs and hogs are scavengers
and God has mentioned in all revealed scriptures, the Koran and Torah not to
eat pork. So, in conclusion, be careful
what you buy because you are what you eat.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Food is an artistic pleasure to me simply because it is many things that a seasoned chef or just an ordinary cook can do with foods, such as preparing flavorful soups, sauces, or just setting up a buffet meal. Furthermore, having more than ten years experience of working with chefs, like Tom Meyer of the Old Ebbitt Grill Restaurant on 15th and G Street, NW. He's also a C.I.A. graduate. Jean Louie of the Watergate located near Virginia Avenue, NW, DC. is also a graduate of the Cordon Bleu School in Paris, France. These are just a few reputable chefs whom I have gained a strong sense of knowledge from. Like arriving at the Marriott Hotel on Pookhill Road in Bethesda, MD during the pre-dawn hours as in banquet and buffet chef, preparing waiters and waitresses for menu classes on a daily basis. Finally, the culinary industry can give a person that has the desire so many opportunities in today's world.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
thesis
Food is an artistic pleasure to me because of my knowledge of working with some of the top chefs in the culinary industry in restaurants and hotels around the Washington metropolitan area.
Generally, food it is viewed as nutritional because it should be well prepared upon serving. Food is the basis for healthier living simply because without it you would simply die. Although some people are addicted to it, and become obese. One thing about food is that it is so versatile. You can create a wide variety of cuisine and dishes from different parts of the world such as Asia, Africa, France, and Bold American. Furthermore, good fresh foods and vegetables, as well as, fruits that tends to have a high antioxidant content and can be used aphrodisiacs for the human body. Also, doctors use food as a life saver by putting people on control diet programs.
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