Kitchen Chores To Kitchen Escapades

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Kitchen Chores to Kitchen Escapades What’s your first thought when you hear the words cooking or baking? You may have an image in your head that consists of the former housewife doing her daily duty cooking up some dinner for her three kids and her business devoted husband. Or maybe you’re picturing your grandmother baking up that old apple pie with everyone at the dinner table trying to guess that family secret. In my head, I have an image that’s a tad more exhilarating. I picture a fast paced competitive career with towering cakes and infinite numbers of pastries in every direction possible. Ever since I could remember, I’ve always had a profound love for baking. I would do it not only because I was craving a slice of paradise you would simply call chocolate cake, but just the act of doing it was more pleasurable than amusing myself with barbies or coloring in my coloring book. At five years old I felt like the Wolfgang Puck of my family with aunts and uncles turning to me left and right to craft my cousins’ cakes for every occasion. Not much crafting was involved considering the only ingredients I used were a box of Pillsbury cake mix, a few eggs, oil, and water. As times literally flew by, my techniques grew up and so did I. The only future I could vision included me and my Kitchen-Aid mixer doing what I do best. Why should we limit humanity to a world of bland cuisine, when there are people out there with the willingness to share their passion for the art? According to Milos Pesic in The History of Culinary Arts, “the history of culinary can be traced back in the 1800s when the very first cooking school in Boston was teaching the art of American cooking along with preparing the students to pass on their knowledge to others.(P3)” The school was mainly to teach instructors. Who knew that after so many years of it being a chore, people would actually want to

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