The internship program at America’s Test Kitchen is rotational, meaning that over the course of my 12 week internship, I will work with two different teams for a period of six weeks each. Last week, I was assigned to the Cook’s Country team and things were just a bit slow in the test kitchen because [...]
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Internship Recap – Week 1
Last week was the first full week of my 12 week internship at America’s Test Kitchen. As a kitchen intern, my primary responsibility is to assist the test cooks and editors as they go about their daily business of researching and testing recipes. That encompasses many different tasks so rather than bore you to tears [...]
A Change in Direction
Over the last few weeks, there have been some interesting developments in the world of See Dan Cook. While I’m not at liberty to share everything just yet, the biggest news I have is that I am no longer working at the restaurant. Considering that this was my primary post-culinary school goal, this was a [...]
Restaurant Recap
The dust has finally settled on my first week of working in the restaurant and while I’m still in the process of trying to make sense of the shock to my system that this week represented, in the meantime, I thought I’d take some time and detail what my first week was like. I worked [...]
A new year, a new career
As I wrote about in my end of 2009 update and in previous posts, the wringing-in of 2010 marked the end of one chapter in my career and the beginning of an exciting new adventure for me. Upon returning to Boston after my west coast adventure, motivated by my recent unemployed status and desire to [...]
End of 2009 Update
Apologies for the length of time between this post and my last post; the wife and I have been enjoying some much needed r & r on the west coast for nearly the past two weeks. I’ve been wanting to write about all of the great food that we’ve been enjoying on this trip, including the tasty [...]
My First Interview
A few weeks back, I wrote a short post about how I was beginning my search for a restaurant job. Since that post, I’ve been able to come up with both a resume and a cover letter template that I feel pretty good about and I’ve actually managed to send off those materials to a [...]
See Dan Cook…
…coming soon to a restaurant kitchen near you* *assuming that you live in or near the greater Boston metropolitan area Since the primary reason for this blog’s existence is to document the process of me transitioning from sector 7G chair moistener to eventual chef/owner of my own restaurant, I figured I should let you all [...]
