CHASING YUMMY

The home in which I was raised, I had a mother who stayed home and cooked three meals a day. Fast food was unknown to us on our little island called Mauritius. When we moved to California, my mother continued to cook every meal. Friends would visit, and would be confused and delighted by what my mother cooked that night... From one multicultural environment to another, I was exposed to what the world had to offer in the variety food and all it's iterations. That lead me to enroll in culinary school. I left the high rolling world of IT Account Management. Just when I thought I was out of tech, they pulled me back in. In a world of unlimited expense accounts and client dinners, suddenly, food became my enemy. Obligations to wine and dine came with a price. Nobody can sustain the excesses nightly extravagant dinners and drinking, and other vices, without slowly breaking down. Like the aristocrats in middle ages who developed gout and syphilis, the modern equivalents started to appear..