My Experience with Focaccia
By Jennri Sierra
My name is Jennri and I‟m a chef at an Italian restaurant in Alexandria, VA. This is my
story of how I make focaccia bread. I have
been working in this restaurant for about
four years, but I didn‟t have any experience
making any kind of bread. I‟m persistent in
everything I do, so I started asking different chefs how to make this bread. They
wouldn‟t bring me the right recipe or tell me
the right process to bake this kind of bread,
so I decided to study different ways to bake.
It was so complicated f or me because I didn‟t
read English as I do now. This is why when I
tried it didn‟t come out as I wanted. Then
the restaurant became busier, and I didn‟t
have enough time to try it again, but I knew I
could make it. The only thing I had to have
was patience. So I had to stop everything
and study more until I learned how to read
and understand my cookbook better. I just
waited for the right moment to practice it again. Now, I have read my cookbook,
I have watched different videos, I have fixed the recipe and I know different
processes to bake. Finally, the first focaccia came out exactly as I wanted. Now
everybody loves my bread in the restaurant. I‟m happy because it took me time.
And it was hard work, but finally I made this fabulous bread.
Teacher: Maggie Loh
Level 6 Morning
Fall 2009
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