"If the casserole is missionary style, foodporn takes its devotees into the foodie kama sutra."

Food porn - if you arent familiar with it, get to know it because it will change your life. Todays class - food porn. This week has been pretty good so far; fish fab and I had a rocky start but today made up for it 200%! Basically we spend all day gutting, scaling, skinning, trimming, and filleting fish. Im talking trout, bass, snapper, tuna, grouper, skate, all of the above. And when we prep them, we realllly get intimate with them - to the point where my teammember had to be so kind as to wipe the fish guts off my forehead for me the other day! And the fish smell does not wash off. Its a lingering love really...and since im not so fond of the fish, we do all this work and I dont get to enjoy the afterresult. Thats not to say some wasnt great - we made some skate, which is a ray (like stingray) with a little butter garlic lime capers and parsley and it was DELICIOUS! We turned ahi tuna into poke as well (raw tuna tartar, a little spiced creme fraiche, some caviar and a fresh fried chip = money). Today, however, was our first non-fin fish day, on to MOLLUSKS and all the greatness of clams, oysters, mussels, etc. Today we learned proper technique to shuck an oyster and a few ways to prepare mussels - my favorite being the classic wine butter lemon garlic combo. Chef made one with lemongrass, green curry, and coconut milk which was intriguing, but the curry turned me off. We also turned squid into calamari, which was amazing, duh. So imagine this - a loooong table completely filled with about 5 varieties of fresh oysters on the half shell to be paired with cocktail sauce and a garlic aioli, blue and green lip mussels prepared two ways, a chorizo octopus stew that smelled like spain, and calamari fresh from the fryer. Just looking at it made me giddy. Best lunch by far!! After eating it, the only possible way to explain - orgasmic. I took some pictures on my phone that just didnt do it justice - i promise today I am buying a real camera. So from now on you can truly understand when i say food porn. Tomorrow will be a great example, because the bacon started curing last week in meat fab is ready so we are wrapping our shrimp in it tomorrow! (It will be accompanied with king crab legs, dungeoness crab, and lobster.) Jealous yet? One thing that has definitely changed about me since being here - i cant just eat to eat anymore. If im eating something just to not be hungry, why bother when you can save that space for that amazing life changing meal? Food porn people.
Eat well, not just eat.
PS - my favorite foodporn wesbite is tastespotting.com - check it out!