Many thanks for having me here!
I've loved food and cooking since I was in my 20's. Why so late in life, a valid question, suffice it to say my Mom wasn't the greatest cook and she was all I had to judge by growing up. My first restaurant job was as a line cook (semi fast food, really an assembler), but I started falling in love with it. Since I didn't have much experience cooking and had to support a growing family I took a job with the local Coca-Cola plant (in manufacturing). I continued cooking at home with varied results for the first few years, as time went on I became quite the amateur chef and decided to try my hand at baking--------wow was that an experience, it took almost 15 years for me to make a proper baguette iaw "pain de tradition française". I was a proud puppy that day!
In my mid 40's I opened my Bar and Grill, what a ride that was----put me in the hospital several times. Now since my Bar and Grill closed, I've taken a few years off to ponder what I would like to do, and my mind keeps coming back to cooking.