Kusina Maria

People have always said that the secret to cooking and baking well is love. I have always known what it means but here, at this moment, I think my class has defined what it really means.

We have been working for three days straight, the Hot and Pastry Kitchens more so than the Cold Kitchen. When you love, you have the patience, the perseverance, and the willingness to learn and cook and bake excellently. You do not merely cook and bake with care, taking into consideration not just the recipe and the food, but the people who will be eating the food.

CACS Davao Skills Batch 9

When you love the people you cook and bake for, when you love cooking and baking, it is imperative that you cook and bake with passion, with the willingness to do everything properly. Correctly. Perfectly. Even if it will take you hours, or days just to serve the most delicious salad, grill the most tender steak, produce the perfect stew, bake the most delicious cake, or simply offer the best dip, you are willing to do it. You whole-heartedly abandon everything else, forget to sleep, eat, and rest, just so you can give your all.

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