THE CULINARY JOURNAL
Lost For Ideas (Meet The White Canvas — My Go-To Tool to Start Anywhere)
Feeling stuck in front of a blank page?
Discover The White Canvas, a simple tool to unlock creative ideas using four essential steps: Inspiration, Challenge, Context, and Persona. Learn how to move from a blank page to bold concepts — and join the play.
From Nothing to Panamera (How Three Post-Its Built a Flying Dinner Party)
What if a dinner felt like boarding a plane again?
In this story, I show how three random Post-Its and a playful mindset sparked the idea for Flight Again with Panamera Airlines—a fictional culinary journey born from The White Canvas tool. Creativity, nostalgia, and food take flight.
Learning to Focus (My Way Out of the Fog)
Struggling to focus on your culinary or creative projects? This free printable tool helps you reset your mind and get clarity—fast.
The Focus Map is a simple, step-by-step template designed to help chefs, food entrepreneurs, and creative professionals improve focus, reduce overwhelm, and take meaningful action.
From Feeling Lost to Finding Focus (Mapping My Culinary Journey)
Visual timeline of my culinary journey, mapping key moments from hospitality and education to creative food entrepreneurship using the Hero’s Journey framework.
“Emotion: energy in motion”
I feel so full that I need to unbutton my pants, but with emotions. Taking a step backward, placing some order, and identifying where everything began, where the passion, love, and faith for this new path of life started, can be challenging.
This photo was taken 6 years ago as a statement of intent: love for details, apparent simplicity, taste for games, and ability to surprise.
“The Phoenix must burn to emerge”
As a result of circumstances or perhaps as part of a cycle, this recipe is part of a personal reflection: Who am I?
I propose a journey through time and reflection through a series of ingredients, onion, garlic, saffron, fire, and the spoon as a symbol of being: do not treasure the past; create from what you've learned.
“Persistencia”
“The fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition”.
A persistent attitude is one of the 27 characteristics found in the greatest innovators (KH Kim, The Creativity Challenge: How we can recapture American Innovation, Prometheus, September 2016).