It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
I'm not a trained chef. I'm a self-taught cook, and I want people to be like, 'Yo, I could do that! Maybe I didn't think to or maybe it seemed harder than it really is.'
There are people who claim to be instinctive cooks, who never follow recipes or weigh anything at all. All I can say is they're not very fussy about what they eat. For me, cooking is an exact art and not some casual game.
As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.
I'm actually a really good cook, and people don't believe this about me!
They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.
I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry.