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.

And when you love the people you are serving and you love what you are doing, you do not even realize that you have already poured out so much for that meal which they may or may not eat, may or may not appreciate and love. But it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that you have given your all.

While we are reputed as the noisiest and naughtiest batch thus far, I can say we have given it our all. And we will continue to give our all tomorrow, until the last morsel of food is served. Because we love what we are doing. And because we enjoy it. Moreover, we enjoy each other’s company.

To my dear relatives and friends, thank you for attending our Legacy Buffet tomorrow! Know that we, Skills Batch 9 of CACS Davao – Cucina Nueve, have been working very hard the past five months. We hope that our hard work will reflect on the food we will be serving tomorrow. More importantly, we hope you will have as much fun eating it, as we did learning, preparing, cooking, and baking everything. BON APETIT!