My First Culinary Competition
I never thought I would ever be good enough to do it alone... but I underestimated myself. I had gone through three years of culinary arts thinking I could never be good enough to compete in the competitions. Everyone supported me: my teachers, my friends, and most of all, my parents. It took three years of culinary arts, iron chef, and convincing from everyone around me for me to be confident enough to participate in a competition and realize I had a true talent.
Iron chef is the entire reason I initially thought about participating in a competition.
Junior year, I had the best team I could ask for. Out of seven members, I ended up being the only girl and the guys named our team “The Naked Chefs”. We made it …show more content…
Halfway through, I heard the team next to me talking to the judges about a problem:; their meat would not be consumable by the end of the hour. The judges proceeded to count off points on their score sheet and a little part of me got excited; however, I still had two teams to defeat. Once the hour had finished and the judges finished their tastings, they let family members walk around and try the entries. Everyone looked at my team name and almost all of them sang the song and hesitated to try my chili, but everyone who tried it came back for more; Micco came back a dozen times. I felt so happy until they had us sit down and wait for the scores to be calculated; that had to be the longest fifteen minutes of my life. The judges came back and everyone crowded around them. They started announcing the winners at 3 rd place. When they didn’t say my name for 3 rd or 2 nd place, I felt discouraged; until I accidentally glanced at the paper with the winners on it. I became so excited I couldn’t hide
I never thought I would ever be good enough to do it alone... but I underestimated myself. I had gone through three years of culinary arts thinking I could never be good enough to compete in the competitions. Everyone supported me: my teachers, my friends, and most of all, my parents. It took three years of culinary arts, iron chef, and convincing from everyone around me for me to be confident enough to participate in a competition and realize I had a true talent.
Iron chef is the entire reason I initially thought about participating in a competition.
Junior year, I had the best team I could ask for. Out of seven members, I ended up being the only girl and the guys named our team “The Naked Chefs”. We made it …show more content…
Halfway through, I heard the team next to me talking to the judges about a problem:; their meat would not be consumable by the end of the hour. The judges proceeded to count off points on their score sheet and a little part of me got excited; however, I still had two teams to defeat. Once the hour had finished and the judges finished their tastings, they let family members walk around and try the entries. Everyone looked at my team name and almost all of them sang the song and hesitated to try my chili, but everyone who tried it came back for more; Micco came back a dozen times. I felt so happy until they had us sit down and wait for the scores to be calculated; that had to be the longest fifteen minutes of my life. The judges came back and everyone crowded around them. They started announcing the winners at 3 rd place. When they didn’t say my name for 3 rd or 2 nd place, I felt discouraged; until I accidentally glanced at the paper with the winners on it. I became so excited I couldn’t hide