Cooking for a living can be a really tough job. The hours are long, pay is low, and the prep monotonous. If you work for a good house, however, the rewards can be…delicious. Pictured above is a typical daily diet for me while I’m at work. On the left, was my lunch of grilled salmon with fingerling potatoes, spinach and yellow pepper salad, and some kind of rich butter sauce which I slurped up to fast to define. On the right, dinner, a mid-rare Kobe tri-tip with grilled asparagus and “Kobe Sauce, ” which is made from two kinds of stock and reduced with some kind of wine. Sure, I don’t eat like this everyday, and when I do, I usually have to scarf it down over a garbage pail as I’m running to pull something from the oven. But hey, I eat well. The free coffee is also a perk.
