User:John King

Anthropologist, botanist, chef, gardener/farmer/nurseryman, teacher and writer among a few other professions. World traveller emphasizing "the boonies" if not wilderness. Very local; avoiding cities and popular recreational or resort areas as much as possible. I learned to cook in the family's Irish boarding house in San Francisco; where I began to work at age seven. Later, managed several restaurants in San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Monterey, California; as well as cooking schools, catering and dining clubs. Principle styles: Californio; Celtic; German; Hispanic; Mediterranean and Indonesian. The latter representing Asian Fusion as well as a variety of ethnically-individuated, or regional, traditions.