For Christmas my old business partner and my soon to be mother in law gave me about $5,000,000. No, not in real dollars, but certainly in the knowledge that I am going to acquire and put into action when I have my own restaurant.
From C’s Mom I got a book by Joel Robuchon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joël_Robuchon) called “The Complete Robuchon.” I also (because I ordered online which saves you a lot of money) received Grant Achatz restaurant entitled book; “Alinea” You should check out his site at http://www.alinea-restaurant.com/.
Robuchon as you can see from the Wikipedia page is one of the heavies in the culinary world. Check out Chef Achatz at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Achatz.
Robuchon is a book that I can work with right away. Alinea is one which I can look at now but am probably a couple years away from being able to use in any meaningful way other than to spur creativity.
Finally my old business partner came over the other day bearing a big wrapped Christmas present. I knew right away it was a book. As I opened the paper it took me about two pulls on the wrapping to realize that she got me the third book that I wanted for Christmas. Ferran Adria’s “A Day At El Bulli.” Check out Chef Adria at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran_Adria. He is the number one chef in the world and as it says on the cover of his book each year they receive 2,000,000 requests for reservation for only 8,000 spots.
Needless to say I am excited to dive into my new books and to expand my ever growing knowledge base. What are you doing today in pursuit of your dreams?
As Chef Adria says in the book; “ A creative person tries to do what they don’t know how to do.”
Are you dreaming big and inspired?
A la prochaine
SDM
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