Comments | iamdollface: Closet:

iamdollface

Closet:

Aug 28, 2012 22:14

I used to keep this under wraps, but as my day job I sculpt stuff out of sugar and decorate cakes. It was never a great ambition of mine, but as I get older and my other artistic endeavours fail to make traction, I've come to the realization that this is, for forty hours a week who I am. With that in mind, I offer my professional portfolio. The ( Read more... )

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blogofstench August 29 2012, 12:24:33 UTC

A) What's gum paste?

B) Is it edible?

C) What's your new job?

iamdollface August 29 2012, 12:58:51 UTC

Gum paste is a super strong sugar dough that is sort of like fondant. It has a slight sugar taste and smells like feet. You can eat it, but you wouldn't want to. My new job is also a cake place. I would like to not sculpt cakes anymore, but I am disturbingly good at it. Flowers are my specialty.

blogofstench August 29 2012, 15:58:21 UTC

Technically edible, I see, kind of like fondant.

iamdollface August 29 2012, 16:02:55 UTC

There are types of fondant that taste like food. Gum paste its always disgusting.

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capn_jil August 30 2012, 02:07:10 UTC

i have a pastry cook resume question for a friend, as nuts as that sounds. do you mind if i pick your brain?

iamdollface August 30 2012, 02:15:29 UTC

For you, anything! Ask away.

capn_jil August 30 2012, 16:35:25 UTC

this guy just got done doing a turn in a tourist bakery in the hinterlands and is looking to do similar stuff in my city... his wares aren't fancy or aesthetically complex but he knows what he's doing.

what is the difference between a office wonk resume and a baking dude resume?

should he have a portfolio set up online with examples of the stuff he's baked?

iamdollface August 31 2012, 01:26:10 UTC

So, I hire bakers sometimes and that is different from hiring decorators. With a decorator I won't give them a second thought is they don't have a portfolio. However, with a baker I look at where they have worked, what sort of things they made/did at said jobs, where they went to school (if they did), who they interned with (this is IMPORTANT) and if they did an internship at all. I like to see a well written, well ordered resume and cv because you seriously want your pastry chef or baker to be organized and a thinker (there are lots who are not -- if you can see it in the resume, that's BAD). He should list any other job experience too. For example: being a manager at Chili's (like the chef I hired yesterday). Chili's doesn't impress me, but that she was a manager and made a bunch of high school students act like wait staff does ( ... )

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