Foodie Gwyneth Paltrow (love her!) sure does have a knack for slipping into Prada…whilst being able to both stomach and whip up some home cooking (hate her!).
Click here to see her channel her inner Martha Stewart/Julia Child/Giada DeLaurentiis and roast a chicken, along with potatoes and a garden salad.
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Want a career full of parties, food, people and colleagues decked out a la Dan Humphrey as ‘cater-waiter’ in the last season of Gossip Girl? Need we say more?!
Food service catering industry events range from corporate lunch box drop-off to full-service wedding receptions. However, usually an event caterer’s responsibility involves managing wait staff serving tables or self-serve buffets at banquets, conventions, and weddings.
Although food is the focal point, caterers also oversee decorations, such as table settings and lighting. Catering companies will as such, execute the client’s envisioned decoration theme or color scheme. Aesthetically-pleasing (and good-tasting) food alone can appeal to the senses, but caterers must keep in mind the decor and ambiance needed to make an event successful. Catering is usually sold on a per-person basis, meaning that there is a flat price for each additional person. Caterers need to keep the budget in mind to make a profit.
When food is your career, it’s a balancing act to keep your body in check as well.
In a Newsweek article titled “The Gourmet’s Dilemma,” author Alicia Coffman interviewed many food writers around the country to see how they keep from looking like the chowhound their profession would have them be.
In a ‘dream job’ where one ‘tasting’ can have 1,000 calories or more, food writers find themselves compromising at home and in the gym.
“When I’m not working I have to eat like a rabbit and exercise like a crazy person,” said Karen Fernau, a food writer for The Arizona Republic, in Coffman’s article.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow is an example that, while extreme, exemplifies this concept of openly loving food and keeping a svelte celeb shape. Paltrow and world-renowned chef Mario Batali took a road-trip around Spain last year for a documentary centered around food and culture entitled “Spain…On The Road Again.”
A culinary arts career is one of the few, if any, where one can have their cake and eat it too.
Literally.
From Baking/Pastry Arts to Wine Studies to Hospitality Management, one can pursue nearly anything and everything under the epicurean sun.
And make a lucrative living creating the joy of taste for others.
