John, age 46,
finds cooking therapeutic, and is always adding new cuisines to
his repertoire.
I
been cookin' curry for a couple years now.
I used to cook in a restaurant, and I used to run a bed and
breakfast up in the Catskills for my aunt and my uncle, and
I prepped food for over 150 people. When I go on vacations,
I always get shanghaied into cookin'. So this is just a love
of mine.
It's important for people to tour New York: that there way,
you go into Brighton Beach, you go into Greenpoint, you go into
different ethnic neighborhoods, and instead of driving through,
just stop and sample the food, and you try something you never
tasted before.You find out that you've tasted something that
you've been missing all these years!
I experiment. There's many different types of curries: there's
Indian curries, there's curries from South America, from Bombay,
from Delhi. West Indian curry's a good curry. The one I'm doing
today is pretty much a Guyanese curry. But my curry comes from
TLC: Tender Loving Care.
I think cooking is a way of venting frustrations. Some people
go see a psychiatrist, some people go see a bartender, some
ski, some play golf, and cooking is my avenue of release.
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