Day 3 of Works, Thoughts, Observations, and Maybe a Question or Two

Good Evening To Everyone.....or Good Morning To Everyone, just depends what time zone your in.

But I'm finally settled in from getting back from a nice, long day at work. I'll rub it in for everyone out on the East Coast (though its finally getting warmer out there) It was in the 70's today with a lovely breeze and this evening, instead of it feeling like someone dropped the AC to -5, it must have been in the 50's so I was able to drive back with the comfort of my windows down.

Today marked what would be day 4 work at The Garden of the Gods Club.....so ultimately I need to fill you in on the past three days of work....which I'll prob do tomorrow morning whilst writing the week 1 assignment for the externship manual. So back to today, well like I mentioned earlier, it was a nice, long day at work. I worked my butt off and at the end of the day walked away and drove home with a sense of accomplishment and knowing what I need to work on tomorrow to improve. LOTS of prep work today, like LOTS and LOTS of prep work.....alot of knife skills today. My chef's knife......she worked alot today.....batonnets, juliennes, etc. I did alot today.....like I spend every morning before work, we'll sit down at the stone and make a nice, fine, sharp, beautiful edge before we head off. But through doing lots of work, it helps me personally get better and understand how to work efficiently and fast but maintaining high quality. Also spent some work cutting alot of croutons for salad....If anyone hasn't had the pleasure of getting to experience the CIA Bread Knife, it cuts amazing through bread.....and it does a good job of shaving off skin FYI...I just don't want to know what getting cut with it would be like. But work today was good, tomorrow I'm going to put my station diagram to the test and we'll see if it works for my saute station.

A few observations from today, I was noticing while driving back home, it was quite peaceful, driving through Colorado Springs was very relaxed. Not only that you could actually see the night sky. My dad had made mentioned that out west, cities are spread out because theres actual space to do so so there is no real light pollution here, just the street lights so it was nice for a change...I guess that topped off my evening and made today great.

I also want to pose a question for everyone....I was watching Julia Child today on PBS before I was to head off to work and it got me to thinking, Chefs or Cooks that have influenced me through there thoughts, philosophy, style that I look up too. So, what Chef or Chefs or Cooks have influenced you? I kinda have a list so here we go:

-Chef LeRoux (For everyone from CIA)
-Fernand Point
-David Chang
-Julia Child
-Anthony Bourdain
-Escoffier

I can't wait to hear every ones answers!

- Garrett