Toby Corn

I am..
a hopeless foodie
a Restaurant Consultant
a Kitchen Designer and Remodeler
a Part-time Landscaper
an Occasional Caterer
a lazy author (or, so my ex-editor says)
Seriously under-employed

I believe...
that everyone can cook - given the right tools and opportunity
that you should (occasionally, at least) eat outside your comfort zone
that some chefs spend way too much time decorating the plate and not enough time cooking
that there are more gems in your grandmother's recipe box than you realize
that everyone has one good recipe..and one cheap novel in them
that there is never a good reason to buy prepackaged , pre-cooked food
that fast food is the bane of our culture and will be our eventual undoing
I have...
eaten things that would probably have been better off in the trash
bungee jumped before it was even considered marginally safe
lost the majority of my closest friends before I reached 30
thought..really, truly thought.. I would be dead by 30
sheared sheep for fun - castrated three of them for dinner
traveled fairly extensively
three novels in varying stages of incompleteness
been crushed by a grand piano. (The piano was undamaged)
been bitten by a chimpanzee
spend most of my adult life working in the food industry
spent an entire night fishing for squid off the coast in Thailand
been the guest of honor at a dinner for reasons I am still unsure of.
had my luggage confiscated for drugs due to a poorly trained beagle (there were no drugs)
a thing about deli meat in general ... mortadella, specifically