Howdy again folks, life has been busy. STBXW will be getting papers soon, work is a drag (may start looking for new place), women are troublesome and are the bane of my existence. Saw most of my family this past weekend, it was a good visit kids are growing. Dad couldn’t make it due to weather and problems on his end. Saw my xgf that was good, I’m glad we buried the hatchet a while back. Work has been a drag recently hours cut here and there, sometimes I feel like its a losing battle so I’m going to update my resume and browse various job sites, someone must need a head/exectutive chef/kitchen manager. I gotta get that other car fixed and on the road soon, hopefully will work on it this week. I need to uplaod picts to myspace and facebook, and maybe do something with that webpage I have.
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Greeting to all, I am the one, the only, the Chef Chuck. No really I am a chef, I am also a son, brother, Marine, husband, uncle, fixer of cars, plumber, “ACer” (more on that later), a jack of all trades, and according one person “a very evil man”, others call me a tender soul, teddy bear, and white knight. I’ll let you decide what I am.
Lets see where to start, guess at the beginning is always a good place. I was born in 1970 in Brooklyn NY, my brother Mondo came first, then John came a bit later, then more of us started coming out of the woodwork. Mom was single, did a damn good job with 3 boys, none of us has really gotten in to any serious trouble. I always wanted to be a chef so when I went to Park West VHS in Manhattan, which has a culinary program. Then in 1988 I joined the United States Marine Corps. Yes I am a jarhead and damn proud of it. During those years I was trained and worked on the HAWK missile system, went to war in Desert Shield/Storm, and traveled to Okinawa japan. When I left the Corps in ’92 and decided to continue my culinary career, so in early ’94 I went to the Culinary Institute of America and graduated in late ’95. I worked in MSG and in a few restaurants around the NYC area for the next few years before moving up to the Hudson valley. In 2001 my life may have started a downward spiral, which I am now coming out of, when i started dating and eventually married Daisy. It has been a very rough 7 years, and I will rant about that portion of my life another time. We are now seperated and I hope to get a divorce soon. I am still cooking as head chef in a small restaurant in Po-town.
What you will see here is me ranting about stuff (mainly to get it off my chest), recipes I want to share or have created, and little glimpses of the life of this chef.
Hmmmm I think that’s will be it for now its late and i have clothes to hang and crap to do. Until later children behave yourselves.
