Last week was all about fabrication. We filleted flounder, sea bass and mackerel and broke down whole chickens and fabricated steaks from strip loins. It was a tough week. It looked easy when the chef instructor showed us how, but it wasn’t when it came to doing it ourselves. There was too much flesh left [...]

School has started. I’m officially a student at the International Culinary Education. Everything is moving fast, and I’ve been trying really hard to absorb everything in class. It has been a little more than a week now, but we already had an exam and a paper, and I have to write another paper by the [...]

 One cup = 250 ml Is one cup 240ml???

What’s in the bag, you ask? Well, it looks like a repairman’s tool bag, but there are no screwdrivers or hammers inside. Instead, there are whisks, spatulas, and ladles. This is a tool bag I just picked up from culinary school. These utensils will take me through the classes for eight months starting February. There [...]