#culinary student

[crashouttwink]

Key lime…

[culinary-harry]

I don't think anything could have prepared my broke ass for the price of my uniform and equipment, but now that I have experienced the wonder that is Mercer brand chef pants, I can't ever go back.....

[manifesting-me-06]

[22-22lottie22-22]

Had a good day of studying today, mainly focused on Русский (Russian). In college today we made banana bread and date scones which were really nice, I love being a culinary student but I really dislike the fact we have to pay for the things we bake ourselves. Apparently it was also ‘freshers’ week for universities so there was loads of stalls set up in the town centre where you would get massive discounts if you were a student.

[strawberry-muffin-crisis]

adventures in culinary school

chef: wine is especially important to use in fish stocks, because if you dont use it your stock is gonna taste like a fish

chef: and if that's what you want you might as well pull a fish out of the dang ocean and lick it

[slumberingcorpse]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned this here but I’m a Mexican-American currently studying to be a pastry chef. Why do I suddenly bring this up? Because I just watched “Mexican Week” in the Great British Bake Off. Overall, I just feel greatly disappointed. This show was one of my inspirations to go into this career path. Sadly. I expected more. It takes one google search to find hundreds of amazing delicious rich baked goods that would’ve been great to highlight. Instead they didn’t do any of that. They made no effort in giving Mexican baking the respect or praise it deserves for it unique techniques, flavors, and qualities that is only seen in Mexico.

I know that some of you will argue that they just didn’t know and that they didn’t mean to offend people, but that’s no excuse. They just didn’t care. They make such a huge effort in highlighting the baking history and techniques for other cultures like French and Germany. Just because they aren’t familiar with it doesn’t mean that they can’t google it, hell, hire a Mexican pastry chef to  consult and provide advice to the production and crew. There is no excuse that in the year 2022 something like this should be acceptable.

However, from all of this, I have been inspired once again. I’m making a promise to myself to study and give Mexican baking the respect it deserves. I’ll make it my goal to prove to people that Mexican baking is worth the effort to learn and isn’t just a stupid gimmick. So maybe call that a win.

[eattheory]

nothing but gen z facts here: all the new and incoming culinary students were absolutely influenced by the movie, Ratatouille.

source: me (2007)

[mooseisokvy]

Survived my first day of school ✌️