Nudity in the kitchen

I find the recently popular combination of nudity and cooking highly engaging! The danger of the idea alone gives me goosebumps–having any part of your body naked in the kitchen is the number one no-no for the culinary professional, so it’s no wonder that these chefs who are baring all spark tons of interest. Besides Jamie Oliver, star of the BBC program The Naked Chef, there’s also a great new calendar out featuring a similar theme: Naked Chefs with their Blenders. One of the chefs who posed with his blender, Daniel Boulud, is visiting CIA Greystone tomorrow afternoon for a discussion and book signing. Should be interesting! I’ve browsed his cookbook, but haven’t read his book yet, maybe I’ll do that tonight.

School is still going excellently–I can’t believe we’re practically done with our first two courses already! We’ve got our final paper due Monday and two final exams Tuesday morning. Then on Tues. afternoon we start Sanitation! And after that, we’re in the kitchen for good–Woo hoo!

Chef Jorin gave a very interesting demonstration on working with sugar today. I wish I had known everything we learned today when I tried to do spun sugar last Halloween. What a disaster that was!! But now that I know how to do it right, I’m going to give it another go. Well, I’m off to do lots of reading in preparation for our big exams next week! ~Hasta la vista~