/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Instant Kraft Mac n Cheese reminds me of the week I spent locked in my dorm room at college wondering why I was here if I despised every single class that I took.

I decided after a solid week of feeling like a shit and eating shit food that I'd take my mind off things by cooking really good food. That always calms me down.

So I'm in this tiny communal kitchen, making this killer cheese sauce out of my bechamel and folding the fusilli, bacon and caramelized onion into it when, midfold, I realized that if I loved cooking so much I could just do that shit as a career.

It's been a solid year that I've given up college to work the line in a high end fine dining restaurant in NYC and although the hours are long, the burns scars are permanent, and the pays pretty low, I've never been fucking happier.

It's kind of weird that mac and cheese represents both my lowest and highest point in life.