Gelato & Ice Cream schools are dumb

Why? Because they can’t teach you the most important parts: suffering and heart. Of course there are technical aspects of making the stuff that you can learn at a school, but there are cheaper and more life fulfilling ways to learn. I went to a culinary school which I regret mostly, and I luckily never went to some bullshit ice cream or gelato school.

Making gelato and ice cream, or even things like sushi and pizza, are not things to be learned in a classroom by some egghead. It is something to be transferred whether passed down through family or something like an apprenticeship where you start off as a sucker. This is because suffering and heart are the most important things. It either has to come deep from within or you are broken and rebuilt several times over. Then you go off and become your own man assuming you also possess higher standards and an imagination. If not, then no matter what you are screwed.

This could be said of the food industry as a whole but I’m reluctant to say so since currently there’s a big shift into making everything as packaged and sterile as possible. Everything is a pursuit for prettier social media pics. The economy is currently based on thin air. It’s insane. Plenty of shit thrives today. It’s sad.

Luckily, this is still a nasty business and I hope it remains so for a while. That’s also a plus since many people these days are so outraged and weakened over the smallest things that they’ll quit sooner than later and get out of the way. I believe in kindness in the streets and in the home, but in my kitchen it’s war and hell. The only salvation is seeing your smiles.