Chef Zealand

Social Media Chef

The first thing I ever learned how to cook was Alton Brown’s Spaghetti and Meat Sauce from his show Good Eats. For those who may not know, that is a six plus hour recipe that uses four pots, twenty ingredients, many different cooking techniques, and of course, requires you to start cooking your dinner before you’re even eating lunch. For a while I wondered what it was that made me so intrigued by this recipe, and why it was that I just had to make it. I now believe that as a fifteen year old kid who had meals whipped together by an incredibly hard working mother who came home from work at six every night, all I knew at that point was meals put together in under thirty minutes, which were incredible, don’t get me wrong, but I think the concept that food can take that long to prepare, can have that much effort put into it, was new and incredibly exciting to me. So I asked my mother to take me to the store, grab the ingredients and for six hours, I tirelessly watched that sauce, the meat, the onions and garlic, the tomatoes, every single aspect had to be perfect. The feeling I got when I tried something I worked that hard on, and even more importantly the faces my loved ones made when trying it, has had me absolutely hooked on cooking ever since. My entire goal as a content creator has been getting as many new chefs to feel that same feeling I did, even if it was just one person. We’re now millions of people later, and each new dish feels just as amazing as the first.