Hello everybody at the Foodies Bee Hive Community! My name is Julia and I call myself "Blogging for Birdseed!" I am writing to you from Cape Town in South Africa!
2011 was a whirlwind year for me. Everything about myself turned inside out and upside down. I ran away from everything I knew in the working world and threw myself into another profession. All my Chef friends warned me not to do it, but cooking school called to me like a siren of the sea, and helplessly I followed. I signed up at the SA Chef’s Academy for the following year!
(Food prepared and photographs taken by me)
2012 started in a flurry of knives and Chef’s whites. My fellow students were a beautiful mixture of young, just-out-of-school kids, and more mature students following their dreams and passions like me.
Classes consisted of food theory, pastry, bread making and hot kitchen classes. The words “Yes Chef!” become our mantra. Every day was a delicious adventure.
Highlights included creating my own bread starter - "Freddie" the living, breathing culture lived in my fridge. He failed to make bread rise but was still a cherished member of the family. I played with so much chocolate that year, they gave me an award for best sweet tooth and chocolate moves (I still use the stick blender I was given once a week). I met my wonderful lifelong friend Leigh - she was the fastest onion chopper this side of the globe, and even though neither of us are no longer in the food industry I’ll be forever grateful for the skills we learnt and friendship we forged.
Now, ten years later, I hope to share my love of food and cooking with all of you at Foodies Bee Hive!
Well, welcome to a space where you can share everything you have learned and express the sensations that cooking transmits to you and the passion you have for it.
How beautiful your story, follow those impulses that motivate us to change always fill our lives with anecdotes and enriching experiences.
I would love to see recipes here with that careful and beautiful presentation that you show in the dishes you prepared during that time of study.
I can tell that you are passionate about it, go ahead and continue to cultivate that love for gastronomy with all of us.Greetings!
Thank you, I'm so pleased you enjoyed it and I'm really looking forward to sharing more about food soon.
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Is "freddie" still alive??
It is a crazy world in the culinary space. I had some experience of it working in a high-end restaurant as a baker. The things you see there, the craziness when a table of 20 is booked, but in the end, the memories stay with you forever.
I wish he was still alive, but I have to start from scratch again, but I'm very inspired to do just that.
Oh dear. I am sure you can get some from a local bakery that bakes with sourdough, or start one again! Best of luck. It makes the best breads though. Nothing like a freshly baked sourdough bread and some jam.