Externship week ten

The interior of the cafe

Things are getting better...

Second week at the Root cafe and it's almost the middle of my externship. Last week I got an updated schedule for my externship. Two cafes were added. I don't know much about one of them, but the other is an Asian cafe and I am very excited going there. It seems I have adjusted myself for the work schedule and what is more important for the work environment. There are some rules which I don't like (taking lunch break at 10 in the morning when there is no food and I'm not hungry) but there are no strict control how you follow rules. Which makes life

Externship week nine

Working in the cold room,
feels like a North Pole

Where do you prepare cold dishes? Right in the cold room.

New place again for me. This time it's a cafe named Root. Don't sure about the name of the cafe and where did it come from. The chef is trying to play everything very simple, but with some sophistication. Anyway, it seems she know what she is doing and she is a nice lady. The manager of the cafe is not nice. Likely for me I saw her probably three times during the week.

Root is the only gluten free cafe at Google. There is no single item with gluten on premise. The chef is GF. I do not care much about gluten, but it is interesting to see what they are doing to substitute common ingredients. The cafe is opened only for lunch and that makes life quite easier.

Externship week eight

A typical menu for a day

Indian food the continuation...

That was the second week of my externship at the Indian reastaurant at Google. This week was slightly easier. It seems for me there work load was less than the week before. That in turn allowed me to pay more attention on what was going around, to ask more questions. Also I was able to finish my project at this place, to re-write recipes for one day menu in the CIA standard and then to cost all these recipes.

Externship week seven

An example of food served 

Indian cuisine...

This week is another rotation for me, this time this is an Indian food. The place I will be working at is the only place serving food restaurant style at Google (all other cafes are serving food buffet style). The curriculum for the next two weeks are very interesting and I am very excited about it. At the end of the next week I have to take a test, to show what I have learnt during these

Externship week six

Guess what they are doing? 

BA Catering the continuation...

The second week in the BA Catering. This week was more interesting than the first one. I was able to cook at the event and move a little bit beyond chopping vegetables in the kitchen. I should probably clarify about vegetables. I do not mind to do a prep work in the kitchen, I understand that this is foundation in preparation of any dish (you can not cook if you did not cut your vegetables). It would be great to move forward and do something more than simply cut vegetables for other cooks.