Dear Bay Area HNers: I will cook for you
I'm heading down to the Bay Area March 6th - 21st to start my job hunt (details here: http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/career-transition/).
Cooking is one of my huge passions* and I know from experience that every time I travel, I literally get itchy fingers if I spend more than 3 or 4 days not cooking.
So here's the deal: On the nights I have free, I will come to your house/apartment, we will go shopping together, you pay for the ingredients & I will cook you a 3 course meal based on what you like & what looks good on the day.
A couple of caveats:
* You need to be somewhat flexible on the date, I don't know what my plans are for when I'm down there so I can't guarantee anything.
* Groups of anywhere between 2 & 8 people are fine. If you have more than 8 people, I'll need a helper.
* I've produced some pretty tasty food in some pretty dire kitchens in my life but if your kitchen comes equipped with at least the basics, it's going to be much easier for me to produce something amazing.
* If you're interested in cooking, feel free to help in the kitchen and I might be able to teach you a couple of things. If you have no interest, that's fine too.
* I'm an inveterate meat lover but I can also do very tasty vegetarian food.
If this is something you're interested in, shoot me an email at [email protected] and tell me a little bit about yourself and we'll see if we can get it done.
Thanks HN!
*For my 21st birthday, I cooked 21 courses of food over 21 hours for 21 people. Pics here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2019448&id=219000104&l=9edeae22ea
My partner and I live in Mill Valley (just over the GGB). She's in tech also. I eat meat. She doesn't. I think we can support twenty or so folks.
Our kitchen is well stocked, we're the local drop off for a CSA so we have fresh veggies, we both can help, etc. If we do meat, I'd like to do it in a smoker outside.
I'm [email protected]
Sarah, my partner, has a background in publishing, founded O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing conference and is now co-chair/GM for the Web 2.0 Expo. She also wrote books on Google and Twitter.
Will send you both an email.
I think I'll come.
You might even find your future job here... Feel free to contact me, my email is in my profile.
Send me a message at [email protected]
PS: The 'I Will Cook for You' strategy netted me a couch to sleep on for a month and a room thereafter, plus a bunch of new best friends.
I could seat 30 people without even breaking out the folding tables (though I'd need more chairs to use them).
I can absolutely help you with the cooking and I might be able to teach you a couple of things. I think we can pull off more than three courses :)
It's way up in north Seattle, but it's very accessible by bus, it's right off the Burke-Gilman trail, and there's tons of on-street parking. I'm blasdelf@gmail
OK, maybe that's not true ... but a guy can try...
While you're here maybe you should look up @marcup13. He's a noted food hacker and probably has some suggestions or would be into cooking with you.
i'm several thousand miles away tho :(