the cook in winter
My first two days off in a row in a month and I get the flu. Or food poisoning, can't tell which. I'm back on my feet after a completely miserable and disgusting two days, but I had to call in today for a recovery day. It made the exec cranky, but fuck it. This is what happens to your crew when you work them too hard during cold and flu season
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2) salespeople should be taken out and shot. that dessert was a disaster waiting to happen in the first place, and then nearly doubling the count after you had already DONE the prep....!! This is why I don't work in a hotel anymore.
3) I mostly hate the Food Network. Bad cooks, perky gimmicks, and spreading the idea that cooking (and esp pastry) is just a breeze. They have NO idea what a huge fucking amount of WORK it is. But Alton Brown rocks.
4) Amateurs should NEVER be allowed in the commercial kitchen without a strict "Touch Nothing" escort.
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2) They've been doing this a lot lately, and finally they've pissed my boss off enough where he's starting to take a stand. Now they're living in fear of his visits. Today we found out that one sales rep was so afraid to tell us that he added a huge order of cupcakes at the last minute that he went and bought them himself, and that's exactly how it should be.
3) And they don't realize that it's ugly, boring, stupid grunt work, not glamorous sweating-theatrically-over-a-burner work. It's washing dishes, and stocking clean sheetpans, and fixing broken carts, and scrubbing ranges, and cleaning vegetables and cutting fruit til your hands are numb. I don't watch TV myself, but a tablemate from school that I respected swore by Alton Brown and the stuff she stole from his cookbooks was pretty good.
4) Professional, working kitchens = zoos, and people should have the sense to treat them accordingly. Feed the bears or leave them the fuck alone, but don't rattle the cage.
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