The Joyous Occupation of Being a Chef

Article courtesy of Guest Author Nia from Survival Wytch and Cooking with Nia

My daughter has embarked on a journey to becoming a “JOY” maker. My daughter finds joy everywhere she goes. She is meticulous and careful, artistic and creative and loves people and discovering new things. 

What has this to do with becoming a chef you might ask? Well, being a chef is a creative occupation requiring a love and joy of preparing food for others. Without this love it is merely a process and not a creation.

My daughter wants to:

1. Travel - in order to experience and visit other places and work overseas and learn from international chefs. To discover how these chefs remember their childhood and how joy was tasted in their homes.

2. Discover - new ingredients and meld flavors, match and compliment textures, create dishes from exotic ingredients and capture the flavors of the wonderful places they originate from. In other words, wringing out her true artistry in an edible medium.

3. Praise and Notoriety – The opportunity to prepare nutritious full flavored food with fresh exotic ingredients for the enjoyment of every guest that samples what she prepares. Having friends and family and customers return just for a tantalizing aroma, a fine delicate morsel, a satisfying explosion of flavors and textures, and praising her for her culinary competence.

4. The opportunity - to share her joy of creating dishes, of having fun in the kitchen. She loves enjoying a glass of wine while chopping and stirring and sharing good conversation, and the tasting there is always the tasting to share.

5. Pride in tradition - She will make her family proud, the family traditions can survive, the skills learnt from me and my mother can live on in her to share with others.

A chef is an artist, a musician, a skillful craftsman, a perfumer, a creator, an innovator and with these tools joy is created.

My daughter will be a chef, a master of all five - a ‘JOY’ maker.

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