Today’s story will whet your appetite for some tasty home-cooking! It comes from Shelley Adams, author of the highly popular, award-nominated Whitewater Cooks cookbook series, and former co-owner of the Whitewater Ski Resort in Nelson, British Columbia. You’ve already seen her recipe for Hungarian Mushroom Barley Soup featured in my Soup Column. Now you can read how the cookbooks happened, and how she ended up carving out a unique and personalized life for herself, simply by doing things she loved. Here is her story, as she was good enough to relate it to me.
Cooking as a Career Path
I was always interested in food because my mom was a really good cook and we ate really well. She always laid a beautiful setting and used good, local food.
But I was actually unsure what I was going to do with myself. I was working at a restaurant, a summer ski camp restaurant, and a woman who was working with me said, “The movie business is starting to build in Vancouver and they really need catering. I’m wondering if you would come and be my assistant because I’m going to start a company.” And I said, “Sure, I could do that – you know, until I decide what I want to do at university.”
