03.24.08
A Taste of the Forbidden Fruit
Last Monday, I filled in for a fellow sous chef, which actually was my paying in advance for a day he will be covering for me. (I guess the easy way of saying that is, “We switched days.”) This was the first Monday I have worked at Rustico since my very first week of working there. Back then, I was still learning where everything was located, so I didn’t really have a sense of what was going on. Now, 10 months into the job, I found the Monday experience to be a completely different one.
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What’s so different about Monday? Well, Monday is the one day that Rustico is not open for lunch. On a normal day, I find myself running trying to prep as much food as I can before we open at 11:30. But instead, on this day, I have all day with almost nobody in the kitchen to get in my way to prep everything for the restaurant.
It was peaceful, relaxed, quiet, and downright wonderful. On the one hand, I had nobody breathing down my neck with questions or commands as to what I had to do next. And even better than that, I didn’t have to take a break every 3 minutes to deal with another customer’s order. I was just cooking, plain and simple. It was the (perhaps misguided) hope of days like these that is why I took the plunge into this industry in the first place. I had almost forgotten how pleasurable it is to cook a recipe from start to finish without stress or interruption.
The problem is; this was wonderful Monday was the only one I have had a chance to work on, and the only one on which I will be able to work in the future. Here it is, another Monday, and I’m at home on a day off. Now don’t get me wrong; I love days off, I need days off. I’ve been putting in some seriously long days, so this chance to rest is something I have been looking forward to for quite a while.
But all the same, I now know how great it is to work on Mondays, and I’m stuck working on the other days.
I’ve taken a bite of the forbidden fruit.
And I want another taste…
Stumble it!
