Stocks & Bonds
This week we were put into groups of three. I am the only girl, which could be a good thing. I don’t enjoy when girls bicker. So there is me, Nick and Andrew. I think I have a good feeling about the three of us. We are all very different. Andrew has been through the class before so he is a wealth of knowledge on how to navigate this class. Nick, on the other hand, is a 20- something who cannot wait to get into the kitchen. I have a feeling we will have to reel Nick in a few hundred times. And of course, there’s me. The first thing I said to these guys is that despite my lack of restaurant experience, I am here to learn and pull my own weight. This week we made stocks: veal and chicken. This was the class’s first chance to work as a whole group. We were divided in half. Half made chicken stock and half made veal stock. The next day we switched. I thought for the first go around, we functioned pretty well. We divided up the tasks and got to work. Nick, Andrew and I made the sa...