14/11/2021
One ..of my greatest joys…”cooking food for others to enjoy.”
Here is how I remember it.I was 8 years old, home from school not feeling well,bored and alone, I picked up a “Family Circle “magazine and came across a beautiful picture and recipe for “French Chocolate Eclairs {Pate A Choux.)
By the time my sisters came home from school and my mom from work . I not only felt better ,but I had made them.🥄❤🥣
To everyones delight and enjoyment , I knew then that this was a great accomplishment .My wonderful Italian grandmother was an amazing cook and taught me so much, just by we watching her .
I loved receiving cook books for presents. As a young teen I watched Julie Child’s show , “The French Chef” on PBS religiously and would send away for recipes to WGBH in Boston. They would come old -school typed with her signature on them. I would practice cooking on the weekends at my grandmothres house under the watchful,scrutinising eye of my Unce Bill,and bring baked goods to my teachers and friends to eat at lunch. I was not doing that for popularity or brownie points, I just felt the need to create.
I loved my “home economics” class , and I think I was the teachers pet .
When it came time to decide on college or a career path, I wanted to go to culinary school, and in particular the CIA (Culinary Institute of America ). But in 1971 , NO WOMEN were admitted.(Sara Moulton , Gourmet magazine chef , Food Network fame , and can be heard on “Mill Street”on NPR, and Julia Childs prep cook was the first women to be expected ).
SO I did the next best thing and left New Jersey and went to college in New Hampshire , to get an education degree. I had fun cooking meals for my friends in the dorm kitchen. And when I moved off campus the good smells from my kitchen brought many a friends and neighbors to my door.
What more can I say, “I cook” And to my delight so do my sons, Stewart Bowman and Trev Bow. They are great cooks !
I did wind up in the food business,(so did Stewart Bowman) and earned my cuts and burns scars, as a “Kitchen Rat” My resume speaks for itself. SO as a senior , with one foot still in the kitchen door……….I am STILL at it . Thank you for reading .
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I was born with a wooden spoon in my hand, and have had a lifetime of education, experience and establishing a solid reputation in all aspects of the culinary industry. My unique and creative...
