Rachida

“Since cooks like to talk about football, I tell them: “Cooking is the same: every day is a match and every day you have to win.”

 

The main risk is cooking. The dishes are cooked, then placed in an oven and kept at temperature … This is the most delicate part. When things are not going well, generally we already know: the team has lunch at 10:30 am and eats the same thing. But what are you going to do? Everything is cooked and ready to be served…

 

We work all morning to serve 500 people in 2 hours and everything happens there, during the service. This is also the moment that I prefer.” 

 

English translation by Oumou Cisse, Salem State University, May 2020

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