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My name is Guiseppe-Mario. As you can tell from my name I am of Italian descent. I could eat pasta every day, seven days a week. It is in my blood. My favorite pasta plate is spaghetti and meatballs and that explains why I have the picture of spaghetti and meatballs.
I am currently enrolled in the Culinary Management Program at George Brown College. Why did I choose to become a chef? There are many reasons why. The men in my family are the ones that cook. From a young age, I remember sitting on the kitchen counter watching my dad cook dinner. My dad's one and only cookbook is "The New World Encyclopedia of Cooking". It was published in 1972 and has very little pictures but the foods my dad has cooked from this cookbook were almost always good. I was always in the kitchen helping my dad, so when I got into high school and they gave cooking classes, I thought why not. The cooking classes where fun and it grew my interest in cooking. When you come over to my house, almost guaranteed the Cooking Channel will be on.
At the moment I am not working in the industry, but I hope to one day work in the industry and grow my passion for food.
My personal philosophy of cooking was drilled into me by my grandparents. Fresh from the garden, fresh homemade pasta and fresh homemade bread are always the best. My grandparents grew all their own vegetables and they had fruit trees in the backyard also. A cucumber from the garden always tasted better than a cucumber from the store. Even today, my father works in the produce industry, so we get fruits and vegetables directly from the suppliers.
Blogging is new to me. I personally do not follow blogs. What I hope to gain from blogging is up in the air. As I continue to blog for school I hope to learn to appreciate and understand the mass following of people who blog or read blogs.
Julia Child was quoted as saying "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." I picked this quote because like my grandparents, Julia Child said good food comes from fresh ingredients and you can't get any fresher than the backyard garden.
A Great Culinary Blog that I checked out was "The Pioneer Woman". Ree Drummond has a show on the Food Channel that my family watches and when thinking of picking a blog to look at, her name popped into my head. I like the look of her blog, it is very organized with tabs for different categories and drop-downs for more options. From the couple of blogs that I read, she writes her blogs as if she was just talking to a friend. Ree Drummond's blogs are personal and tell stories. They are not stuffy and technical. They are interesting because you learn about the blogger while learning recipes. I cannot think of anything that she could do to make her blogs better. When something is working fine, don't fix it.
References
Images are from www.pexels.com
"Julia Child Quotes", www.goodreads.com
"The New World Encyclopedia of Cooking", Edited by the Staff of Culinary Arts Institute. Delair Publishing Company Inc., 1972.
"The Pioneer Woman" Blog, https://thepioneerwoman.com
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| My Nonno's zucchini (2018) |
My personal philosophy of cooking was drilled into me by my grandparents. Fresh from the garden, fresh homemade pasta and fresh homemade bread are always the best. My grandparents grew all their own vegetables and they had fruit trees in the backyard also. A cucumber from the garden always tasted better than a cucumber from the store. Even today, my father works in the produce industry, so we get fruits and vegetables directly from the suppliers. Blogging is new to me. I personally do not follow blogs. What I hope to gain from blogging is up in the air. As I continue to blog for school I hope to learn to appreciate and understand the mass following of people who blog or read blogs.
Julia Child was quoted as saying "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients." I picked this quote because like my grandparents, Julia Child said good food comes from fresh ingredients and you can't get any fresher than the backyard garden.
A Great Culinary Blog that I checked out was "The Pioneer Woman". Ree Drummond has a show on the Food Channel that my family watches and when thinking of picking a blog to look at, her name popped into my head. I like the look of her blog, it is very organized with tabs for different categories and drop-downs for more options. From the couple of blogs that I read, she writes her blogs as if she was just talking to a friend. Ree Drummond's blogs are personal and tell stories. They are not stuffy and technical. They are interesting because you learn about the blogger while learning recipes. I cannot think of anything that she could do to make her blogs better. When something is working fine, don't fix it.
References
Images are from www.pexels.com
"Julia Child Quotes", www.goodreads.com
"The New World Encyclopedia of Cooking", Edited by the Staff of Culinary Arts Institute. Delair Publishing Company Inc., 1972.
"The Pioneer Woman" Blog, https://thepioneerwoman.com
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