I really love to cook and when i do cook and other people taste my food and tell my to my face that i didn't cook that someone else did.I'd don't bother me cause i know the truth. My food taste so good,"I know someone that was eating my food one day and swallowed a chicken bone it tasted so good he was eating so fast." So my question to is "HOW TO CARTIER FOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME".
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I suggest you read the free article "How to Start Your Own Highly Profitable Home Based Catering Business" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol25/catering.htm  . The article can give you an introduction on how to start your own catering business. It covers information on the demand for catering, startup costs, income potential, and marketing your catering business.\n\nFor detailed information, I suggest you check out the following books:\n\n- How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business \n- How to Run a Catering Business from Home \n- The Complete Caterer: A Practical Guide to the Craft and Business of Catering \n- How to Manage a Successful Catering Business \n- Catering Management \n- Successful Catering \n- Start Your Own Catering Business \n\nYou can also learn a lot from the following associations of the catering industry:\n\nNational Association of Catering Executives http://www.nace.net/\nNational Restaurant Association http://www.restaurant.org
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WARNING: This story is NOT for those with a weak stomach or those with a liking for meat-pies! Please don't let your curiosity get the better of you unless you are sure that the worst things you can imagine will not put you off eating pies for life...\n\nMy first job was as an apprentice baker in a large family run bakery. At first I enjoyed the job, especially as employees were allowed to take home and eat a great number of the bakery's wares. (I personally liked thier meat pies, and would take a dozen or so home each week). I often wondered though why only the new employees were taking advantage of this offer. \nThen one day I changed shifts to work throughout the night, which is when I first discovered that the place was infested with rats. I had seen one or two during the day shift, but they were chased out quickly and I thought little of it, but on the night-shift several of the workers would hunt the rats for sport, and on my second night of working the new shift (while selecting more pies to take home), several of the regular night-workers (including the owners son) managed to catch a live rat. \nWhat happened next stays with me even today...\n\nThe Foreman, egged on by the owners son, took the rat by the tail and dropped it into the mincing machine which ground the meat for the bakery's meat pies! The other workers were lughing and slapping each others backs as the rat was turned into mince-meat, then squeezed out into pie-casings. The pies were then covered, added to the regular meat pies, baked and shipped out to unsuspecting shop owners. \nAfter asking about the frequency of these events I was told that this was a regular occurance, which is why very few workers actually took home the bakery's products. I dropped the pies I had taken in the bin and took the rest of the week off, understandably quite ill after discovering the possible contents of the pies I had regularly been eating and giving to friends and family.\n\nI'm ashamed to say that I didn't report the incident, the wages at the Bakery were extremely high (especially as I was so young) and I needed the money very much. I continued working there for another couple of months, but never took any more products home.\nEventually I was head-hunted by another bakery, and when I took the job I told my new employer of the practices of this bakery. Two weeks later the above mentioned bakery was closed down after a surprise health inspection, and although my new job was with a respected and very hygenic bakery, I still no longer took any products home.\n\nI still eat the occasional pie, but now only eat pies that have no meat in them.\n\nI'm sorry if this story upsets some people, but I can assure you that this sort of thing is VERY rare, I have since worked often in the food industry and have never come across anything even remotely as disgusting as this. \n\nWere I the man I am now when this happened, I would have taken action immediately, but it was my first job, and I wash fresh out of high-school with little knowledge of the world around me. It is my biggest shame that I did not act sooner, but the feeling of regret and self-loathing that I felt for my inaction have been a valuable lesson throughout my adult life, and never again have I stood idly by when my actions could prevent hardships and discomfort for others.
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LOL omg I am gonna keep looking for your questions.  The reason we bring home left overs and never eat them is because they become unattractive.  They use the lighting in the resturaunt to entice you to take them home.  Once you get there its like..."there's a mix up..they gave me the wrong food or something...this is not an attractive shrimp."
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When I was in the US NAVY aboard the USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (aircraft carrier) the cooks accidentally spilled an industrial sized container of chili powder into the chili and served it anyway.  You know a ship full of men, no one would admit it was too hot too eat.  So we did.  Boy did we regret it later when we were sitting in the head(bathroom).
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You should take cooking classes. Learn something new and socialize at the same time.
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Did you ever do it? If so I'd like to know how funny the counter person thought it was. I work as an A.M in a fast food place and I think it would have been freakin hilarious!
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I love cooking! \nI have been cooking fo rthe past 9 years and its been absolute fun all this time. Its a great de-stressor for me. \n\nI like to cook American, Italian and Indian dishes. 2 of my favourites would be pasta with meatballs in tomato sauce, simple and great tasting! & Butter chicken with Naan. wow!
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As embarrassed as i would be..I'd rather someone tell me.  Its just gross.  Who wants to see that?  I would tell.  Even if i was uncomfortable.  I've told people if they had food in their teeth and a few occasions..have offered a tic tac or mint.  And ya know..its not that funny when they say "No thanks"..  but I offer again.."NO..really..have a tic tac"
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Just because you love cooking does not automatically mean you'll be good at business or love it.\n\nStatistically 95% of the restaurants/ideas in food business die in the first year.  Of the remaining 5%, 95% of those will not see the end of 2nd year.  I don't want to discourage you but being in business is a VERY different skill set than being good at cooking. \n\nThere are several books you can pick up at your local library or buy at your bookstore or amazon.com marketplace (used are cheaper) that'll show you the challenges of being in business.  I'd recommend talking to other entrepreneur's in your area as well as going to lunch meetings with successful business owners and restaurant/ food-industry owners.\n\nQuestions to consider before making this leap:\n\n1.  Do you have business skills?\n2.  Are you doing this alone or with a partner?\n3.  How much investment are you wlling to make? \n4.  Cost of operating the business for 6 months without income and can you afford it?  what happens if you go bust?\n5.  Part-time options can be taking a time-share kitchen at a co-op or renting it from a restaurant or bakery when its closed and using it to cook-up your goodies.  What will be your sales outlet? common ideas are farmer's market, local convenience stores, local coffee shops.\n6.  What is it you are good at cooking and is there a demand for that?\n7.  What is the competition for what you are getting into? why are you better? what statistics do you have (mom may say so, but she's not paying for it!)\n\nThis would definitely help to get you started.\nGood luck and hope you stay firm on this path.
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don't know about that, got no experience with that, sounds like you don't either , (for different reasons I am sure).  I have heard it taste like chicken, lol
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1. A wise man (my hairdresser) once told me to always eet dessert first, to make sure you have room for it. Since he is so smart about hair, I figured he'd be smart about eeting too...so... I always eet dessert first!\n\n2. 0. Stinks. Can't have cookies. Used to eet a whole bunch tho!\n\n3. Prefer oatmeal raisin if 'store-bought', though I make killer chocolate chip ones, and I like my homemade ones best.\n\nYou're welcome!\n\npurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr  chocolate  purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Some one else may think its silly , but it was horrible to me. I came home from work and had two bowls of cereal. They were great. Chilled out for a while and later made a small dinner; chicken, brocoli and rice. That night my guy come over to spend the night. We got all hot and heavy and began to do the "grownup" and well he began to take me to the good stuff and things were getting all hot and we decided to try a differnet position and my toosh was in the air and in his face.... right when we were getting our groove together I cut the cheese! Right in his face and the smell exploded into the room quickly!  He grew limp quickly and it was over. He still tells the story to people. I was just so relaxed and  that cereal and broccli got to me!
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I agree with everyone else,  i think you will be miserable if you don't learn to like veggies. if the texture bothers you consider different methods of cooking the veggies.
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I think if you threw up that much food I don't think it was from eatting all that food,but a particular food that you did eat,that caused a sly form of Food Poisoning.Could the steak have been bad,the shrimp not cooked properly,even down to the choc. cake and sundae,the cream could of been bad.You never know,especially at "all you can eat" buffet If your still threwing up along with the runs then I would check myself to the emercency room,you probably have food poisoning.I went to a chinese "all you can eat" buffet,I didn't stay to eat I went to take a drink and saw a fly swimming around in my Pepsi. I showed them and told them I'm not paying for a meal I can not eat,and walked out. They never came after me.And I never eat there again!!Thanks
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where is the restaurant going to be?\nfrom what you described, I may be interested.\n\nnot somewhere too posh, but like you described, great atmosphere, lovely food, great service. You sound like a real chef? I wish I can be a chef too :)
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to prepare food for 100 people needs experience, you may know the recipe very well, but making it in huge quantities is different, you'll face practical problems that you have never faced before, you ll need stuff that not in your kitchen normally. \ni suggest you ask for assistance from somebody who did that before or use catering.\ndoing that alone for the first time will be too risky.
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A job interview isn't about being all goody-goody and ending up looking dumb. If you ask the waiter/waitress that your steak is undercooked, it will reflect the fact that you are principled and know what you want. On the other hand, if you sat back anc continued eating an undercooked steak, you will feel uncomfortable and probably end up screwing up your interview. So, i would speak up...after all, the interview is a personality test, right?