Blog 22: Mentorship

LITERAL

• The link to my to my mentorship log is on the right of my blog, under Links, labeled Senior Project Hours.
• My mentor's name is Chris Baker. He is employed at The Avocado House in Chino.

Interpretive

• The most important thing I gained from my mentorship is working with a kitchen team. I can now do a "kitchen dance" (a weird combination of ducking, dodging, and softly shoving), and I'm a lot better at the lingo used in a kitchen. (Instead of saying excuse me while walking through a crowd, I know repeatedly state "behind you.") I still need to working on reading sloppy waitress writing. Ive learned a lot about the etiquette of cooking with other, where you are both working on the same thing and different things, together. For example, I could be making one sandwich alone and helping a coworker with two more sandwiches, which he is working on at the same time as working on a third sandwich.

Applied

• My mentorship has helped me understand my EQ first through my mentor. He often drops little nuggets of wisdom while working. Just mall things, but it'll be about the amount of salt to use in a soup, or when to use butter or oil. My coworker, a prep/line cook, also has a lot of information like this. Also, I've made a lot of soup in the last two months and that allows me to experiment with interesting combinations. They let me make what I want, so I usually start with a recipe and go from there. I'll add sugar, or lemon, or certain spices to alter the tastes and flavors in the soup, which puts my answers to the test. For example, in support of my third answer, I once made carrot soup. I knew the soup didn't taste quite right, and my coworker suggested I add nutmeg. A teaspoon later, the soup suddenly had a very warm feeling and reminded me of Christmas, just because of the nutmeg.