Chicago 1973 A cool early summer breeze was blowing through the kitchen, making the curtains dance and flutter. I remember my mom, wearing a gaudy 70s house dress sitting at our kitchen table peeling green plantains into a lime green Tupperware container full of water. She was singing along to the Spinner’s I’ll
Lol, I was born in '74. My Mom never made anything too fancy since she had 8 of us kids, and honestly I never bothered learning cooking anything from her when I was little. I usually just demanded a hot dog (what a brat I was). However, I have a very distinct memory when I was still small enough sitting on the counter by the corner cabinet that had the lazy Susan of dried herbs & spices. Wouldn't you know I would sit there, and open and smell every one? I guess that foreshadowed my life as a cook, beginning with piddley QSRs around 1996 or so. This is embarrassing, but into the late '90s, I thought what they called a garlic clove was a full bulb. The 7 clove chicken I cooked back them became quite the disaster - I like garlic but thought damn, that's alot and stopped at 3 "cloves". Inedible! I had a big crush on Rachael Ray when she burst on the FN scene in 2001 and started learning how to cook due to her. About 2005 I started real line cooking and learning how to prep. I ain't no chef, but to this day I think I've become a pretty good line cook.
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Lol, I was born in '74. My Mom never made anything too fancy since she had 8 of us kids, and honestly I never bothered learning cooking anything from her when I was little. I usually just demanded a hot dog (what a brat I was). However, I have a very distinct memory when I was still small enough sitting on the counter by the corner cabinet that had the lazy Susan of dried herbs & spices. Wouldn't you know I would sit there, and open and smell every one? I guess that foreshadowed my life as a cook, beginning with piddley QSRs around 1996 or so. This is embarrassing, but into the late '90s, I thought what they called a garlic clove was a full bulb. The 7 clove chicken I cooked back them became quite the disaster - I like garlic but thought damn, that's alot and stopped at 3 "cloves". Inedible! I had a big crush on Rachael Ray when she burst on the FN scene in 2001 and started learning how to cook due to her. About 2005 I started real line cooking and learning how to prep. I ain't no chef, but to this day I think I've become a pretty good line cook.