| December |
| 12/04/00 |
Pretty normal week for a December, so I've been told. It's my first December in the biz. Worked 3 da |
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| 12/13/00 |
12/13/00
We sold ½ the restaurant to software company for their holiday party, group of 65 or so. S |
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| 12/19/00 |
12/19/00
Started off shaving filet mignon for 10 plates of carpaccio. While I was prepping the carp |
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| 12/25/00 |
12/28/00
- Mellow night, worked pantry. Unfortunately nothing exciting to write about for a typical |
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| January |
| 01/01/01 |
1/6/00
- A new year, a new adventure and no emergency room! Started at the new place bright and ear |
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| 01/08/01 |
-Got to the restaurant before the chef and started on the Pate a Choux. Felt very independent this w |
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| 01/15/01 |
1/17/01
- We have a 600-person party on 1/20 so I went in to help prep for it. Made and piped out 5 |
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| 01/22/01 |
1/25/01
-The night started out with me meeting the, for lack of a better term, "Super Executive" Ch |
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| 01/29/01 |
Lately I've been thinking a lot about where I want to end up in the culinary world. I'm finding the |
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| February |
| 02/05/01 |
2/08/01
- Put in 5 hours tonight. I was pretty busy and everything I made was new to me. Started wi |
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| 02/12/01 |
2/17/01
- Didn't make it in at 5am to work with the baker, maybe in a couple weeks. Got a bit of a |
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| 02/19/01 |
2/19/01
- My week started out with getting my dehydration emergency room bill (see 12/25/00 journal |
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| 02/26/01 |
3/1/01
- Tonight was the first night I actually felt like a cook. Just as the Chef said last week, |
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| March |
| 03/06/01 |
03/06/01
- I got to the restaurant around 5pm and started helping with the hotline prep work. Spent |
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| 03/12/01 |
03/12/01
-Took a bit of a break this week, March Madness got the better of me. My schedule will be |
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| 03/19/01 |
03/19/01
- Didn't feel like working the hotline tonight so I spent the evening upstairs making past |
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| 03/26/01 |
3/29/01
- Every Friday the Pastry Chef puts a special dessert on the menu and tonight he had me exp |
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| April |
| 04/09/01 |
4/11/01
- The economic downturn hits home. Received notice at my day job that I'm being laid off Ma |
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| 04/23/01 |
4/28/01
- Been sick all week. I think the 40 eighth graders I took to DC last week wore me out. Was |
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| 04/30/01 |
5/3/01
- As Kristy and I get closer to our move to Denver I'm finding less time available to get in |
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| May |
| 05/14/01 |
5/14/01
- AWork has definitely slowed down for me. Actually, it's more like a stop than a slow down |
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| 05/28/01 |
5/28/01
- Week of 5/28/01
Johnson and Wales Financial aid got back to me and
they granted me |
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| July |
| 07/02/01 |
07/02/01
- We finally made it to Denver. The drive was uneventful and more scenic than I had expect |
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| August |
| 08/06/01 |
- What an interesting couple weeks I've
had. I was in Guatemala July 25th through August 6th
and |
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| 08/13/01 |
- I received my registration and orientation material
this week. My orientation is September 1st st |
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| 08/20/01 |
-I heard back from the New Orleans restaurant I was
attempting to secure my externship with and the |
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| 08/27/01 |
9/1/01- Today was the first day of orientation, and other than a little confusion on the school's pa |
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| September |
| 09/03/01 |
First week of school....
9/3/01- Spent most of the day at the school for the third day of orienta |
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| 09/10/01 |
9/10/01- My team had its first real challenge today in
making consommé. We rose (as did our "raft") |
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| 09/17/01 |
9/17/01
- The other half of the class took their practical and we all took our written final exam. |
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| 09/24/01 |
9/25/01- About half way through Continental Cuisine. Today I was assigned the lemon orzo. At the end |
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| October |
| 10/01/01 |
10/01/01- Continental Cuisine was the same as it ever was. I was assigned the eggplant maite, which |
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| 10/08/01 |
10/9/01 - Quite a dull day for me in the kitchen. My assignment was Boiled New Potatoes with Dill. C |
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| 10/15/01 |
10/15/01- My assignment for the day was Marinated Breast of Chicken with a Roasted Garlic Custard Ta |
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| 10/22/01 |
10/22/01- Dining Room continues. Unfortunately I don't have a lot to write about with this class. We |
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| 10/29/01 |
10/29/01- Started my morning with the assignment of "busser." That meant I was neither a waiter taki |
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| November |
| 11/05/01 |
11/5/01- Never really thought I would say, "I wish I were back in Dining Room class." It was our fir |
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| 11/12/01 |
11/12/01- The assignments of the day were blueberry pie and soft rolls. I think our group |
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| 11/26/01 |
11/27/01
-If animals were not meant to be eaten, they wouldn’t be divided into primal parts. |
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| December |
| 12/03/01 |
12/3/01- This meatcutting lab has turned out to be quite enjoyable because our class has finally gel |
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| 12/10/01 |
12/10/01- My grades appear to be back to normal after the C+ I earned in Pastry. Can you really ear |
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| 12/17/01 |
12/19/01- Killed my first lobster today. Our lecture today was on receiving crustaceans and mollusk |
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| January |
| 01/07/02 |
1/7/02- First day back from vacation and I can't wait for spring break. Today wasn't a very exciting |
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| 01/14/02 |
1/14/02- Not a whole lot of excitement on the home front today. My group was assigned sausage patti |
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| 01/21/02 |
1/22/02- Went to town on the meatball subs. Heck, I might even consider myself a "Sandwich Artist" |
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| 01/28/02 |
1/28/02- The second exciting day in the Beverage lab is upon us. We started the morning by taking a |
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| February |
| 02/04/02 |
2/5/02- I'm officially certified to kick an intoxicated person out of my establishment. Well, I wil |
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| 02/11/02 |
2/11/02- The rumor that we'd be taking hours of notes on nutrition never actualized.
We did take |
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| 02/18/02 |
In the literary world, it is probably bad form to start any writing with an apology. Seems to be ad |
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| March |
| 03/04/02 |
It has finally happened. I was sure this day would come. I dealt with this at the end of my Bachel |
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| 03/18/02 |
So two weeks ago when I wrote that I was burnt out, I had no idea my subconscious (or is it unconsci |
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| April |
| 04/16/02 |
At this point in the school year it should not be a surprise to see my journals posting in two-week |
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| 04/22/02 |
"Keeper of cold foods, to be eaten" is the definition of Garde Manger. I think a better definition |
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| May |
| 05/26/02 |
The Last Class
If you would have asked me six years ago what I thought I would be doing with my B |
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| June |
| 06/03/02 |
My first week in the Big Easy has come to an end and boy is it different from what I was expecting. |
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| 06/17/02 |
I'm back with a better attitude and an optimistic outlook on what I will be learning here in the Sou |
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| July |
| 07/08/02 |
I've been in the restaurant for a couple weeks now and things are going well (other than running ove |
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| 07/22/02 |
The biggest news for me this week is that I received a response from one of the letters I sent to si |
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| August |
| 08/28/02 |
Almost The End
After sweating through a Louisiana summer, Kristy and I made it to the cool Pacifi |
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| September |
| 09/17/02 |
My Final Entry
When I started this journal almost two years ago, I was a frustrated cubi |
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As many of you know ChefTalk has a large number of culinary students who are part of the ChefTalk community. We thought it would be great if we could find someone who would journal there experience of going to culinary school from start to finish. ChefTalk is pleased to have had the weekly writings of Logan Worley. Logan attended Culinary School in September 2001 and has since graduated. While attending school Logan took the time to jot down his experience and posted it online here at ChefTalk. Below are the journal entries of Logan for the entire time he was at culinary school. Many of the entries have pictures. Read up on how to get ready for culinary school, and what the experience is all about.