Hello everyone, and thanks for tuning in!
So I'm getting this up and going more. I've been promising for forever, but now I have to make sure I sit down make time for this everyday. So It starts today--Taking a break from packing, grabbing a couple slices of pizza from Coco's here in Hyde Park. Good pizza! I have the Music Choice Hits channel on the tv and jamming out to Gaga, Katie Perry, Fall Out Boy, Black Eyed Peas, et al... Need to sort out what goes and what stays and hope I have enough room between the car and the storage unit. The only things I'm taking with me are Gracie, of course, and my knives and uniforms, my laptop, a few dvds and clothes. Everything else goes into the 5x5x12' storage unit... Kitchen, the rest of the dvds, memoribilia, and whatever else.
The purpose of this trip, as many of you know, is my 4.5 month externship at the JW Marriott Camelback Inn Resort and Spa in Scottsdale, AZ. Mr Marriott takes his family there for his birthday in March every year... It's a gorgeous resort!
I'll be living at the Capri on Camelback apartments near the intersection of Camelback and N 40th (I think...) and they look like a resort themselves!
While there, I'll be rotating through all 5 restaurants at the resort, which include BLT Steak, an American bistro, the spa restaurant... different styles of cuisine, so I'll get the opportunity to learn a LOT. Of course one of the biggest things will be doing Banquets and Catering. You learn SO MUCH from those...
After my externship, I'm going to Stage Across America (stage is pronounced stahj). A stage is where a culinary student goes and works for a restaurant for free to get the experience, and the restaurant gets free labor for a night. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement. I plan to stage at several locations across the country to learn about those regions cuisines--that will help me tremendously in planning for my Restaurant Group, since I want to specialize in American Regional cuisine. My journey from NY will take me to AZ via NJ, DE, MD, DC, VA, TN, AR, TX, and NM and I'll get to see friends and family en route. When I leave AZ, I will take 3 weeks to drive to Vegas, San Francisco, Napa, Portland, Seattle, Spokane, Yellowstone, Mt Rushmore and Devil's Tower, Minneapolis, MIlwaukee, Chicago, Ann Arbor and Philadelphia... It's going to be one HELL of a trip with just me and Gracie in the Kia! Something like 30 states in total on this trip, before arriving back at school.
Please follow along as I document this experience! I hope to get a video camera and also keep a video diary and link this blog and the video diary on YouTube to my Facebook page. Food Network? Are you there?
2 comments:
I applaude you. I wish you the besr of luck on your stage. It takes a strong person to follow their passions; it's good to see you go for it.
You have to make sure and let me know where you'll work in Ann Arbor. Carl and I will have to come down there :o)
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