Author: montejohnsonmojo

Photograph By INSTAGRAM / @LAPOUTINEWEEK Consulting is interesting work and can also be rather satisfying. As a trusted voice, you have an opportunity to influence the opinions and decisions of your client. My assumption is that, by approaching a project without prejudice or a predetermined outcome, a consultant speaks as a voice of authority whose advice … Continue reading Can I Give You Some Advice? →

If you're like me, I thought sous vide cooking was a little too "chef-y". Although I am a chef, I mistook it for an ultra-modern cooking technique that, on one hand, wasn't practical for the average cook and, on the other hand, didn't really have practical use in our catering kitchen that specialized in large-batch … Continue reading Sous Vide – An Emotional Attachment →

Culinary school was good for a number of things, but not all of those things can I recollect at once. They come to me one at a time. In baking and pastry, the second cooking class in as many quarters, the chef instructor tried to teach our passive, inattentive classroom the value of smelling and … Continue reading Recipes and Burning Food…Like Today →

With with two kids in their early twenties, dinner plans at home are ever-changing. Many days, within a thirty-minute span, our dinner number begins with a count of four, then +1, then -2, then again +2. In a moment of frustration, I pushed out a "reservation system" that required a dinner commitment by noon the … Continue reading No Reservations →

I've decided to begin at the end. Although I'm not exactly at the end of life, the end of the rope, the end of the line, or in the end times - yet, I am at the end of a career move that, although expected, hasn't exactly gone as planned. I owned a catering business … Continue reading The Journey Ends →