Or, Things I Could Do To Be Better At My Life
Get involved in the local food scene: Find somewhere to volunteer. Talk to local farmers, growers, factories. Take advantage of every opportunity to learn from experts of their craft. Put together/volunteer to help with events.
Stay up-to-date: subscribe to foodzines, food blogs (the pertinent ones), customer stories, food trends, food science developments, restaurant policy, and all the other food news floating around.
Learn about people in the industry: historical figures and their impact, important milestones, current movers and shakers in the US and abroad.
Get back in shape: "Fat chef" is bad business in our modern world. Plus, I just feel TONS better about life when I'm exercising hard-core on a regular basis. Obviously, I'll never be skinny...but I can be strong.
Write about food: I think that, whichever specific route I end up on, I will need excellent writing skills--particularly, writing about food, restaurants, and the personal experiences of myself and others.
Publish writing about food: Give myself a deadline. Find a blog (or three), a magazine, a newspaper, somebody that will carry a story that I wrote...maybe a year. Include the writing in my culinary education. As anyone who has social conversation with me would emphatically tell you--I love telling stories. Time to tell stories about something I'm passionate about. Like food.
Learn how to take food photos: Yeah, definitely not a strong point. But it could be. It will be, eventually.
Get involved in the local food scene: Find somewhere to volunteer. Talk to local farmers, growers, factories. Take advantage of every opportunity to learn from experts of their craft. Put together/volunteer to help with events.
Stay up-to-date: subscribe to foodzines, food blogs (the pertinent ones), customer stories, food trends, food science developments, restaurant policy, and all the other food news floating around.
Learn about people in the industry: historical figures and their impact, important milestones, current movers and shakers in the US and abroad.
Get back in shape: "Fat chef" is bad business in our modern world. Plus, I just feel TONS better about life when I'm exercising hard-core on a regular basis. Obviously, I'll never be skinny...but I can be strong.
Write about food: I think that, whichever specific route I end up on, I will need excellent writing skills--particularly, writing about food, restaurants, and the personal experiences of myself and others.
Publish writing about food: Give myself a deadline. Find a blog (or three), a magazine, a newspaper, somebody that will carry a story that I wrote...maybe a year. Include the writing in my culinary education. As anyone who has social conversation with me would emphatically tell you--I love telling stories. Time to tell stories about something I'm passionate about. Like food.
Oh, hey, look. A food blog. With my name on it. Maybe I should write in it. Even better--maybe I should give myself a (weekly? semiweekly?) deadline for writing in it. That might help.
Learn how to take food photos: Yeah, definitely not a strong point. But it could be. It will be, eventually.
Volunteer: Find outlets to volunteer teaching, cooking, teaching cooking, working on farms and ranches, helping with events, cooking for families, cooking for people with food restrictions, cleaning. Job shadow someone talented. Ask questions. Work hard.
Learn French: At least enough to not butcher things I'm trying to explain in the food world. And preferably enough to get me around the streets of foodie places. Like France, for example.
Learn French: At least enough to not butcher things I'm trying to explain in the food world. And preferably enough to get me around the streets of foodie places. Like France, for example.
dude....right after I typed that, a native French speaker about my age emailed me and offered to teach me French and negotiate a price for tutoring....o.o. Sweet!! (Big Brother is watching...?)
Keep a clean space: Having my room/apartment/living space clean and uncluttered will help me stay calm and clear and help with the creative inspiration process. (This post has taken so long to write and publish, primarily because I keep stopping to clean things)
Keep the CLEAN space DECORATED: if I keep it decorated the way that I like it, it is much easier for me to keep it clean and uncluttered. I enjoy being in cohesive spaces. (Also: Give myself permission to get rid of some perfectly good stuff that just isn't my style--even if someone gave it to me as a gift or I've had it forever.)
Keep the CLEAN space DECORATED: if I keep it decorated the way that I like it, it is much easier for me to keep it clean and uncluttered. I enjoy being in cohesive spaces. (Also: Give myself permission to get rid of some perfectly good stuff that just isn't my style--even if someone gave it to me as a gift or I've had it forever.)
Start a dinner group: This is difficult with work schedules, but the concept is the same. I cook more, and better, and have more opportunity to explore new techniques and ingredients when I have other people to cook for. Preferably other people who appreciate good food.
Develop patience.
And a more real sense of self-beauty.
And prioritize taking care of myself.
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