New Gig
I started a new part-time gig at a local kitchen shop that also offers cooking classes. All I do is prep the kitchens for classes, assist chefs who are teaching, and clean up during and after the classes. It’s a sweet gig for several reasons:
- The work is straightforward. There is a list of things to do. I do them. While wearing Crocs.
- I get to be around food and kitchen supplies. It’s hard not to ogle various pieces of Le Creuset and other tools I desperately NEED to achieve culinary greatness in my own home.
- This is complicated by the fact that I get a nice discount. This is further complicated by the fact that Chris is adamant that I quit accumulating tools in the kitchen until we have more space.
- I get to eat food. Generally, we get to eat whatever is being cooked in either kitchen classroom. During my first shift, I ate cheddar soup, stuffed peppers, cauliflower, shrimp and crab, apple pie, and four different pastas. I anticipate gaining back all the weight I lost in the last six months. We also get to take home leftovers.
- We can take classes we’re not working for free. Which, um, AWESOME. Yes, I would like to learn how to butcher a pig.
- I get to meet awesome chefs. Many chefs in St Louis teach classes here, and I will get to learn from them while helping them, as well as work with my many friends who teach classes here.
Yeah, I KNOW. It’s a pretty sweet deal, until someone my friends and I have offended comes in and uses every dish in both kitchens just to teach me a lesson about destroying businesses by tweeting about subpar food. The only downside is that most classes are on nights and weekends, which means less time with Chris, since he’s got work and school and it feels like he’s never home. I’m working tonight, he’s got his fake football draft all day tomorrow, I work Monday night, he’s got class Tuesday night, etc, etc. We’re like two ships passing in the night. <tear> I’m also waiting to hear back about another gig, so I might just be a working machine.
Anyway, I hope y’all get to enjoy gorgeous weather over the weekend. I’ll be heading to the Festival of Nations to get me some more tasty vittles. Because I love to eat.
(On August 27th, 2010 at 10:08 am)
That is a very cool new gig for sure! Enjoy!
(On August 27th, 2010 at 11:02 am)
Your work day sounds wonderful! Congratulations on the new gig!
(On August 27th, 2010 at 11:19 am)
I’m jealous. That is all.
(On August 28th, 2010 at 10:27 am)
Fun gig!
I have to admit, that I am fairly anti-Le Creuset, though. Their things are beautiful, to be sure, but ridiculously expensive. Some of the best meals I have had in my life were cooked on a single gas burner in warped, aluminum pot. I shudder at the implication that someone *needs* an expensive pot to be a good cook and for obvious marketing purposes*, Le Creuset has to push that mindset.