Hey there!  I'm a real foodie and I love to cook.  I made some Vietnamese style beef lettuce wraps for dinner tonight.  Do you like cooking?
I love to cook! What are your favorite recipes and styles of cooking?
Awesome!  I do a lot of basic stove top preparations, but I also use my charcoal grill a lot.  I crib recipes from Alton Brown, Gordon Ramsay, Anthony Bourdain and others
Did you take culinary classes or have you ever worked as a chef before?
I haven't, I'm self-taught.  I've been in the same job for 18 years and when I "retire", I'm thinking about going to culinary school and opening my own food truck.  I know it's tough but it'll be an adventure!
Oh that sounds amazing! We have food trucks here where I live and I think that sounds like an amazing opportunity!
Food truck
A food truck is a large vehicle equipped to cook and sell food. Some, including ice cream trucks, sell frozen or prepackaged food; others have on-board kitchens and prepare food from scratch. Sandwiches, hamburgers, french fries, and other regional fast food fare is common. In recent years, associated with the pop-up restaurant phenomenon, food trucks offering gourmet cuisine and a variety of specialties and ethnic menus, have become particularly popular. Food trucks, along with portable food booths and food
incorporates Heid's poetic writing style, and there are essays, interviews, cooking tips and notes throughout. “Writing about cooking is a lot like poetry to me – interesting and emotional and evocative and condensed. So is cooking itself … themes and carrying certain flavors and matching things together," says Erdrich 
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From a Madison, Wisconsin publication, "Poet Heid E. Erdrich does not consider herself a cook or even a foodie, but you wouldn’t know it by the appetizing recipes and edifying tales in her