a new life

I just visited the blog of one of my favourite chefs from USA. He mentioned about how things got screwed up in the kitchen and under that kind of pressure, chefs usually will yell their heads off. However, times have changed or maybe chefs do mellow with age. They don’t scream at their commis cooks. Instead, they calmly turned the situation into something positive. Someone commented that he once prepared the chicken wrongly and his boss converted into another dish. That’s exactly the kind of boss I love and I happened to have met one like that. In my last job when I handled functions, I didn’t know what pressure was. I loved pressure. Pressure was fun and brings the best out of me. I perform better under stress. I learnt from that boss. Whenever I made a mistake, he simply said to me “just keep going”. I live by that motto since then.

Let’s hope that more bosses can be this calm and cool in the commercial kitchens. I guess in Asia this is a rarity. The other bosses I’ve met were arrogant and incapable and they succumbed under pressure.