哈佛申请文书
My aim is creation. 1 love the idea of giving life to nothingness. Were | another
person in another time, 1 might spend my whole life tiling the land, Just like the
earliest farmers, the sight of dirt giving rise to carrots and tomatoes at my whim
feelslike a miracle 1like to randomly burst outin song, 1like to shake my body If
couldlwould bea pianistand apoet anda painter and a politician Unfortunately
in all these disciplines my abilty cant meet my enthusiasm, Where 1 can create,
and break tired codes isin the kitchen. With unlimited time and resources 1would
become the best pastry baker and the finest chefin all ofthe eastern seaboard-
1really like food. On some drab school days Icheer myself up thinking of the dinner
awaiting me in the evening. Often 1 do a 24-hour fast to ready my stomach for a
huge meal. Now being served this food is fine Its usually restful and rewarding to
Sit down after a long day to someone else's careful work whether they be parents,
Brandmothers or Little Caesar But Ive noticed a dull glaze in the eyes of those
Who cook every night Theyre doing it not to forge the uncreated conscience of
their race, as a hungry James Joyce might say。 but out of sometimes love and
Sometimes duty 1know cooks whose "old standbys” wow me every time, but they
haven't any pleasure in their labors. Care and duty are NOT why 1want to explore
food
Tove the whole culinary process from seedling to grocery to refrigerator to oven
to table At each stage the elements grow more complex and my work far more
deli