Blog 23: Exit Interview Prep
Please be advised. The senior team will not conduct any exit interview in which the student has not turned in a passing notebook count and completed this blog. In addition, you are expected to dress as you would for a job interview.
Content:
(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
Essential Question: "What is the best way to teach a beginner how to cook?"
Answer 1: The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to seek employment in the cooking/culinary arts business.
Answer 2: The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to learn through online sources, especially cooking blogs and websites,
Answer 3: The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to learn in the comfort of one's own home.
Essential Question: "What is the best way to teach a beginner how to cook?"
Answer 1: The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to seek employment in the cooking/culinary arts business.
Answer 2: The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to learn through online sources, especially cooking blogs and websites,
Answer 3: The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to learn in the comfort of one's own home.
My best answer is answer 3, "The best way to teach a beginner how to cook is to learn in the comfort of one's own home". I believe this is the best way to teach someone how to cook because it allows for the most creativity, personality, and comfort to flourish; all part of a mindset that is necessary to begin cooking. Cooking is a very organic and personal art and such skills really help a novice build confidence in their cooking skills.
(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
Originally, I believed my answer two would be my best answer because I had the most experience and knowledge coming from my in-class research. I had begun my IC #2 (A cooking blog) and decided to teach others what I had learned from paper and put it online. However, I soon discovered that I would begin to run out of material really quickly and had decided to help my family cook dinners in order to blog about those experiences. As I helped cook with my mother and father, I realized just how fun and soothing it was to cook with my family. My favorite memory was learning to cook Pad Thai and Grilled Chicken with my mom and it felt very rewarding to watch the meal grow each minute as well as to hear my siblings delight with each bite. For these reasons, I decided to shift my best answer to my answer 3.
(3) What problems did you face? How did you resolve them?
My two biggest problems regarding my topic was my lack of experience and the earliest days of my mentorship. I've never had much cooking experience growing up (usually my mother cooked for my family) and I was not able to find a mentorship until early October. By then, I had already missed several blog posts, an interview, and I had not learned a thing. I was hesitant to bug my mentors about helping them cook more for them and felt my lack of experience would only hinder their efforts to help me. However, after I found my mentorship and began regularly assisting my coworkers, things began to easily come into place. I often asked for work and remained patient for their attention, often being rewarded by learning a new recipe, technique, or just the simple satisfaction of watching one of my mentors cook.
My two biggest problems regarding my topic was my lack of experience and the earliest days of my mentorship. I've never had much cooking experience growing up (usually my mother cooked for my family) and I was not able to find a mentorship until early October. By then, I had already missed several blog posts, an interview, and I had not learned a thing. I was hesitant to bug my mentors about helping them cook more for them and felt my lack of experience would only hinder their efforts to help me. However, after I found my mentorship and began regularly assisting my coworkers, things began to easily come into place. I often asked for work and remained patient for their attention, often being rewarded by learning a new recipe, technique, or just the simple satisfaction of watching one of my mentors cook.
(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
-Source #49: Source #49, "The Complete Guide To Making Burritos at Home" by Carl Eisenpress.
This article, written on FirstWeFeast.com, really inspired me to use my Answer #2 as my best answer because it really showed what someone could do with a blog. This post was very informative, colorful, personal, and quite tantalizingly delicious (trust me, the pics of the food were amazing). The author obviously put their heart into the post and spent no expense asking other experts for their opinion, using eye-catching/helpful visuals, and explaining their subject material in an exciting manner.
