I started culinary school! It felt entirely natural to begin September by filling my backpack with a new notebook, snacks, a school uniform and traveling through a slightly-cooled New York for first-day orientation. The Institute of Culinary Education is on the third floor in Brookfield Place, the aberrant luxury mall in Battery Park. Most of the shops are closed now, but it was never very crowded there to begin with. Every afternoon I walk through an archway that feels like a metal detector but checks my temperature, and receive a wristband with the day of the week on it. I enter the school area, which is industrious and non-slip and smells like different foods every ten feet. There are large windows along one side overlooking the trees at the waterfront and the Jersey City skyline. My classroom looks like a commercial kitchen, ringed with heavy-duty ranges and Blodgett ovens, but with more open space in the center, where we sit at stainless steel prep tables separated from each other with plastic dividers.
And after some delay...
And after some delay...
And after some delay...
I started culinary school! It felt entirely natural to begin September by filling my backpack with a new notebook, snacks, a school uniform and traveling through a slightly-cooled New York for first-day orientation. The Institute of Culinary Education is on the third floor in Brookfield Place, the aberrant luxury mall in Battery Park. Most of the shops are closed now, but it was never very crowded there to begin with. Every afternoon I walk through an archway that feels like a metal detector but checks my temperature, and receive a wristband with the day of the week on it. I enter the school area, which is industrious and non-slip and smells like different foods every ten feet. There are large windows along one side overlooking the trees at the waterfront and the Jersey City skyline. My classroom looks like a commercial kitchen, ringed with heavy-duty ranges and Blodgett ovens, but with more open space in the center, where we sit at stainless steel prep tables separated from each other with plastic dividers.