Follow Your Gut

Following my gut also helped me to determine if the path I was on was the right one for me. For example, after I took a job in retail working in san francisco, I found myself climbing the corporate ladder, and I ended up as the project manager from the corporate side. I learned a ton from that experience. And then I realized the projection of my job was taking me further away from my passion for cooking as I moved up the ranks. I decided I wanted to go to cooking school, so I walked away after seven years and went to cooking school for six months. And then just by happenstance, I was asked to just test some recipes for a cookbook to the owner of the cooking school. And it was 200 recipes in six weeks. That was just completely insane. But that led to her calling someone called Marion Cunningham, who was a really well-known food writer and cook. And this woman gave me a job on her last cookbook. Then it was just word of mouth, then I started testing recipes for books, and then that le...