The Start of a New Year...

Now that I'm graduated maybe I'll have more time to dedicate to this blog. I've been brewing with ideas lately, one of them consisting of teaching child how to cook through summer camps or community outreach programs. This will help children understand the primitive nature of cooking, getting back to the origins of food, how to use basic ingredients, and an illustration of our cultures values towards food. Another idea I've been stirring around was influenced the other night by a conversation concerning the restaurant industry. We were discussing the hiring practices of some new managers, actually looking to hire only very clean, straight laced workers. Then problem with this approach is that it's not usually what the restaurant industry is made of. The restaurant industry is the dirty tattooed kids in the kitchen, its a trade, people who use their hands. It's the kids that are out at 3 in the morning drinking at bars after they got off work around midnight. It's sweat over an open flame. We are the laborers that are working the hours when people want to hang out, go on dates, eat dinner with loved ones. Were dirty, were creative. You can almost call us the starving artists in some sense of the phrase. These are the people I adore, because well quite frankly, I am one of them. Therefore, my idea was centered around pictures of people in the cooking world, and calling it "We Are the Restaurant Industry". Now, all of this is just brainstorming, so we'll see where the universe leads me.

"Danielle, shall be the Chosen One, the Child of Light, who will teach them! Go forth and give them tasty snacks!"