The second rule of Cooking with Business

Never trust a skinny chef, or so the adage says.

the chef should be plump, robust, rosy cheeked and chock full of the wares and dishes that they pro port such goodness in...

In other words, they should be happy. So one could easily say,

"Never trust a chef who isn't smiling".

Whoa. Hold on there. None of those Iron chefs on Sunday night are smiling...but wait, sometimes they do, and when they do, it is gorgeous...does that mean that they are smiling all the time?

You guessed it. And so begins the second rule of Cooking with Business.

If you have already applied the first rule, which was always being prepared for being unprepared, how one behaves afterword is crucial to adhering to the second.

One must smile all the time. We mustn't demand that life evoke this action, we must create it within ourselves. In this way, we haven't to prepare for anything. We remain the same, unfettered, between before and after.

So in this way, a chef who always has that "face" they wear is smiling. They are smiling when he is busy at work, presenting his food, simply being themselves. And they are smiling afterwords, because they know they truth about what just happened.

They handled it like they handled it. And they did their best. Just like the last time and the next time will be. But here we are again, doing our best, smiling.

If you tell the truth the first time, you never have to remember what you said. This is the second rule of Cooking with Business. This guarantees a smile before, during, and after anything you are doing.

Ask any chef. If a dish starts with a lie, or a bad ingredient, it never goes away. it just comes through in the end. No matter what we do, it still is there.

But a great dish, just like a great business deal, starts with great ingredients, and great people.

Cheers!

Love,

Tenzo