| Fine dining and the roll of a great chef are inspirational | | | | again to make it work or to better it; each attempt is |
| and accurately reflect the purpose of the spirit within. | | | | not a failure, but simply another version of the recipe. |
| A valuable lesson can be learned by understanding the | | | | Likewise, humanity can never fail because everything |
| purpose of a chef and what he/she does. I have been | | | | that it experiences is a different version of creation or |
| spending far too much time on the food channel, and | | | | the creator. |
| although I don't really cook very well and I can't afford | | | | It is the natural tendency for all things to move to a |
| to cook like them; I gain great inspiration from watching | | | | better version of itself. It is only the ego that sees |
| the Chefs struggle to become better than their food | | | | things as failures. It is the passion for perfection that |
| and it has inspired several articles. | | | | drives a chef to challenge himself. Likewise, it is the |
| A great chef creates the opportunity to experience | | | | passion for life that drives us to recreate it. Humanity |
| the best that food and dining has to offer. From what I | | | | sometimes forgets this, and "simple" leads to |
| have observed over the years, the Hippocratic Oath | | | | "complicated" and an urge to get it over with - to end |
| for the chef must be to not change the flavor and | | | | it. It is in the process of preparing the food that enables |
| texture of a food product but to enhance the | | | | the chef to experience the finished product. But final |
| experience of both taste and the texture. His/her | | | | end is an illusion, because the product is never finished. |
| purpose is to experience food in all its possibilities and | | | | He or someone else will move it to the next level in |
| to bring this new awareness to the table. In my | | | | another attempt to better perfection. |
| experience the Gourmet Chef exemplifies what the | | | | Full of passion and emotion, success and failure, the |
| purpose of spirit is in the world of physical creation. | | | | food channel motivates and inspires all loyal viewers to |
| It is the will of the creator to experience physical life in | | | | aspire to higher awareness. It is pretty much the only |
| all its probabilities. It does that through the part of itself | | | | TV I watch that I can come away feeling elevated. |
| that it knows as the physical body. Like a chef the | | | | Many of the programs are metaphors for the human |
| creator prepares humanity in countless different forms | | | | life experience. However, if your kids are watching a |
| and experiences so that it knows itself experientially. | | | | lot of it; it's probably because of all the adults swearing |
| As the creator, how can I experience myself as | | | | - they like that. If you can get past them being |
| humanity unless I create both male and female? How | | | | exposed to the language, there is much to learn about |
| can I experience myself as fat without knowing myself | | | | the human condition in an hour. Warning, parental |
| as skinny? Likewise, how can I know myself as | | | | guidance is advised! Success requires a mind set of |
| beautiful without experiencing ugly, and how can I | | | | determination, passion and a knowing that you will |
| experience myself as being good without experiencing | | | | succeed. In the bigger picture we always succeed at |
| bad? | | | | life. In the physical world the successful chefs have |
| It is the lifelong pursuit of a chef to know himself as | | | | risen to the top because at some point they knew |
| the creator of all that he imagines and identify himself | | | | they would. All things in life are experienced through |
| with the type of food he is known for. A good chef | | | | the knowing that they will be. Hard work and diligence |
| never stops experiencing new foods, new flavors, and | | | | are like praying and doing affirmations, they simply help |
| textures. The three most important words for a chef | | | | you to focus on what you already know. |
| may well be flavor, texture, presentation. The three | | | | Experience all that you desire in your life by becoming |
| most important words for the physical being are | | | | a chef of your own life. Process and manipulate it to |
| creation, freedom, and experience. | | | | bring to the table the exact results that you have |
| Although a chef may process a recipe over and over | | | | imagined and then keep going. |