Q: Why Do You Post Everything You Cook? A: Cooking is a joy and - TopicsExpress



          

Q: Why Do You Post Everything You Cook? A: Cooking is a joy and it runs in my family. - My great-grandmother was a domestic in New Orleans and sold local Creole sweets from her home. I specifically remember the sheets of Pralines aka Pecan Candy laid on wax paper across the table on her enclosed back porch in Baton Rouge. She also made a sundry of desserts; cakes, pies, beignets. - My maternal grandmother took over her first restaurant as a young woman in Columbia, SC. She later became a cook at the historic Red Apple diner in Chicago, then became a pizza chef at the famed pizza parlor, Pizzeria Due. She opened her 2nd restaurant, Mildreds Grill, on Chicagos South Side in the 80s and finally her first fast food but last food establishment, Chicken Express, in 1996. - One of my belated uncles became a gourmet chef in the military. - My second uncle attended culinary school and became a pastry chef. He is a master baker (hehehehe sound funny). - My mother learned the food trade from my grandmother and became a caterer and also owned one restaurant/bar. - My aunt worked in the family restaurants and others and became a desert caterer. She currently sales her baked goods to numerous establishments in Chicago. - My grandfather was a BBQ master and sold BBQ from a portable pit throughout the city, also branding his special Poppas BBQ sauce at the Chicken Express location. - In 1997 I began a catering company called Soul Qsine with a heavy TV industry clientele; Moesha, The Parkers, For Your Luv, Girlfriends... I was the go to person for Red Velvet cake long before the fad would take place 10 yrs later. Local restaurants offered to buy my family recipe which I never gave up! I catered steadily until about 2004. Although cooking was never my choice of career (I did it out of necessity after moving to Los Angeles to be an actor and it came rather easily) my love for cooking persists. It runs deep in my Black, French Creole, Italian blood. It is a common occurrence for my family to call one another and discuss whats on the menu for the day and to trade tips and recipes. There is never a conversation where food is not mentioned. So I like sharing my recipes and creations with my social media friends and family - even if Im no longer being paid to do it. Its just kinda where I come from. Meanwhile, i like making movies even better. ;) So Bon Appetite!
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 02:18:34 +0000

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