Chef To Go

6:30 am.every day,going to school till 11:30 then starting work at 11:45 till 10:00 every night. The hard work paid off, because six month later the chef and the manager were fired and I became the dinner cook and the morning cook became the chef. Three days later he quit, Gilbert Ruiz became the Chef of The Melting Pot Restaurant in Sanger Cal.I was 17 years old ,fresh out of High school. I had to learn about cooking and I had to learn fast, the owners a group of teachers who had invested in this business did'nt have a clue. They did bring back the original chef they purchased their business from Chef Ed Hall. He was a crusty old guy, the first thing he told me while smoking a cigarette, I'm going teach you,to cook 4 things if you can do that; you can get a job any where in the world.