A not so brief history of Chef Roy!
PART TWO
On to my first restaurant job….it was at the Double Tree Hotel, where I was a Bus Boy. I’m sure I just about drove the chefs and cooks crazy with my constant questions about what were they cooking, and why, for how long, and why…are you cutting the fruit like that….and I just had so many questions…. Some where in there, I attended OSU for the Restaurant Administration degree where I learned that I could indeed make A’s in school. I was so excited with my first cooking class that then and there I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.
On through other various restaurant jobs to my next great opportunity….my great friend Tim Hewitt was moving back to his beloved Portland, OR, and it just so happened, as he put it, that there was a culinary school down town that I would be able to visit when I came to visit him. Needless to say, the thought of moving had hardly settled before I realized that I was packing my truck to leave all as I know it….small town Oklahoma…and move right smack into down town Portland. WOW…what a life changing…culture-shocking event that proved to be….one of the best experiences of my life.
