Botanical Confidential

 English is my second language

…as raw food might be your second culinary language.

I don’t know if you have noticed, but most of the raw food chefs out there are people who started out doing something else as a career. Some were corporate business people others worked as managers or writers, and so on and so forth. I mean there is absolutely nothing wrong with that and I applaud any individual who gets inspired by the art of healthy living and changes their life around. Taking such a huge step is admirable and we sure need as much raw food goodness as we can get. I guess what I’m getting at is that, for me, my raw Cheffing career has taken an opposite turn.

I am a chef to begin with. I started in the kitchen when I was 17 and I have taken the skills that I have learned to make Botanical Culinary dishes. The opposite turn that I am talking about is that I didn’t have to learn about cheffing before branching out, I already had those skills, however now I have to learn other skills such as improving on my writing, gulp, to make my blog entries and newsletters easier on the eye and on the English teachers (lol). 

Now for all of you who have worked in the restaurant field you all know chef’s can’t spell, except for the odd ball such as Antony Bourdain who is an acclaimed author. So you have probably noticed that sometimes my newsletters and posts are sprinkled with mistakes. And this is due to one, English being my second language, two cheffing being my main education and three I get impatient and excited about my new posts and sometimes I send them out before my editor screens them. I can hear her screeching right now… So instead of beating myself up over my mistakes I wanted to be honest with my readers but I also wanted to know that I am doing something about it. I’m enrolling in a writing class ;-)

So I will be the Chef turned writer instead of the writer turned Chef.  Learning a second language is a process just like learning how to change your diet to raw food.

At least that is the way I like to see it.