Who is your hero?
Who is your hero?
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Who is your hero?
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Post #1 - July 29th, 2009, 9:34 pmHey,
I think that so many times in our lives we get caught up in the little things that we get lost and forget about the big things in our lives. There are so many times that I forget about how I got to where I am today. I am going to be a head Chef someday. Right now I am a sous Chef. I was reading the other day about how life is crazy and how everything can change with the flip of a coin. I am just so grateful for what I have. There are so many heroes that I could have in this life but I chose somebody who started off small like me. He started off as a server then worked his way up to management then became a chef and now has been called one of the best Greek Chefs. His name is Michael Psilkis and is a great example of what I want to be.
Who is your hero?
Why?
Talk to me!
Juan Guadalupe
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Post #2 - July 30th, 2009, 9:27 amSarah Stegner.
For most of the same reasons you already cited.
I was working in a tiny kitchen in a bakery/cafe and she was a freshman at NU, waitressing there.
At some point she enrolled at Kendall. I remember her excitement when she would come back talking about her first classes, the chemistry of eggs, acids, etc.
Later Chef Gutierrez took her to work under him at the Ritz Carlton.
The rest is history."Strange how potent cheap music is."
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Post #3 - July 30th, 2009, 9:29 amI have a lot of culinary heroes but if I had to identify just one; one who has had the most profound influence on me and one who I admire the most, it would be the man with whom I'm standing in this picture . . .
Me with Anthony Bourdain (2003)
=R=By protecting others, you save yourself. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. --Kambei Shimada
Every human interaction is an opportunity for disappointment --RS
There's a horse loose in a hospital --JM
That don't impress me much --Shania Twain
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Post #4 - July 30th, 2009, 9:34 amSince all I think about right now is bbq, my current hero is the guy on the right.
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Post #5 - July 30th, 2009, 10:58 amNot really my hero, but since we're sharing 2 shots.
Steve Z.
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post #6 - July 30th, 2009, 3:33 pmThat's OK, steve - he's Sparky's hero...
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Post #7 - July 30th, 2009, 4:17 pmAs far as graphic design work goes my hero is on the left side of that picture. If you know the scene being depicted, just imagine:What have you done with those GNR logos?
We intercepted no logos. Aaah....This is a volunteer program. We're on a delicious mission.
If this is a volunteer program...where is David Dickson? <crunching noise>
Aside from the site, my food heroes are:
1. Julia Child
2. Antonio Contreras and family
3. Emilio Gervilla
4. Rick Bayless circa 1986
My anti-hero is Ming Tsai.
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Post #8 - July 31st, 2009, 5:01 amJacques Pepin
Julia ChildGypsy Boy
"I am not a glutton--I am an explorer of food." (Erma Bombeck)
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Post #9 - July 31st, 2009, 9:39 amNot certain if it ranks hero status, but the person who most defines the evolution of the revolution of American food today would be Alice Waters. Liberally influenced by/stolen from the French and Italians, so much of what we take for granted today; foraging for wild and or pristine ingrds, personal relationships w/farmers/purveyors, eating locally and w/the seasons started @ least here in America, in her Berkeley kitchen in the early 70's. I had the honor and luck to be living there @ the time."In pursuit of joys untasted"
from Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata
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Post #10 - July 31st, 2009, 11:40 amI would have to say my mom....During those growing years she shared the importance of using cooking and food as a way to bring the family together and celebrate. I remember the birthdays when she made home kolacky and those winter Sundays where she and my dad would make 15 dozen pierogies from scratch for the holidays.
Second would have to be any one of my children who could follow up a bite of chocolate chip cookie with a piece of broccoli...Classic.
KevinT
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Post #11 - July 31st, 2009, 12:23 pmKevinT is now my hero.
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Post #12 - August 4th, 2009, 1:56 pmSince Ronnie S beat me to Bourdain (Curse you, Suburban!), my food hero, and we're doing 2-fers, here's a shot of my greatest professional hero, taken in his lab at Cambridge:
GeoSooo, you like wine and are looking for something good to read? Maybe *this* will do the trick!
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Post #13 - August 4th, 2009, 2:20 pmThat guy bumped me out of the way in line (on line, in que, on cue????) for ice cream one time in Cambridge. I though I recognized him from the Simpsons' or something.
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Post #14 - August 4th, 2009, 2:49 pmronnie_suburban wrote:I have a lot of culinary heroes but if I had to identify just one; one who has had the most profound influence on me and one who I admire the most, it would be the man with whom I'm standing in this picture . . .
Me with Anthony Bourdain (2003)
=R=
Do you have any other pictures from that night? I think you know the one of which I speak.
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Post #15 - August 4th, 2009, 4:08 pmNeroW wrote:Do you have any other pictures from that night? I think you know the one of which I speak.
Sadly, no.
=R=By protecting others, you save yourself. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. --Kambei Shimada
Every human interaction is an opportunity for disappointment --RS
There's a horse loose in a hospital --JM
That don't impress me much --Shania Twain
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Post #16 - August 14th, 2009, 1:07 pmLately......I'd have to go with Silas Jayne. Have you seen his car?Colombian women are skalleywags.
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Post #17 - August 14th, 2009, 2:17 pmI have many heros. My heros don't have faces or names to put with them because they change daily. My heros are those who are willing to put themselves on the line day after day to ensure our rights remain intact. They are police officers, firemen/women and those who are in or have been in the Armed Forces. To me, those people are the definition of hero.
My son is one of those heros. He's deploying to Iraq later this year.
My food heros are Julia Child for willing to put herself out there to show everyone that French cuisine is not so scary; anyone who compiles a cookbook; anyone who tries something new in their kitchen.
