Lefty
Yank
Tell us a little about yourself - your family or household, kids, pets, occupation, etc.
Well I was born in Miami, Florida and lived there till 1970. I had a serious accident on my 12th birthday that changed the course of my life from that point on. After years of being put back together physically I missed most of my childhood. I meet my wife in high school and married with in months of graduating. Well we got married in Feb. 1964 and we are still together today. We had 4 kids, 3 boys then a girl who died on September 13th, 2001 at 31 years old. My kids have been a prolific bunch in that we have 17 grand kids and 3 great grand kids. I used to tell them when they where young to find something they like and stick with it. I meant a job but then kids hear only what they want to hear when their father speaks.
We have always had cats and dogs but with kids we sure have had a lot of exotic pets through they years too, especially living in South Florida. We currently have 3 house cats and a dog.
Occupations let me think, I've sure had a few in my life. When I graduated high school my first full time job was as a draftsman for a yacht builder in Miami. I then joined the sheet metal apprentice program at my step father's urging. In late 1969 my wife and I packed up the kids and moved due to no work in Florida to Vidor, Texas. One of the first things I did when we got there after going to work was look for some where to work out. I meet a guy that had just got his black belt and was opening a school in Vidor so we opened it together running it together till 1980. In December of 1980 due to some health problems my wife had we moved back to Miami. I quit working as a sheet metal worker in 1979 and was doing body guard work from some corporations while still in Texas. In 1980 I had earned a good reputation and got offers as a free lance courier as well as a body guard for many different groups from governments to private parties. I traveled to 94 countries over the next three years and quit doing it in early 1984. We moved to Louisiana for less than a year returning to Homestead, Florida in early 1985. I then went back to school and got a BS in Computer Science taking a job with Dade County Public Schools as a systems analyst until 1994.
In 1994 we meet a couple that managed a storage facility next door to our place in Homestead Florida. They told us about the storage business which got my wife and I interested in trying it. In 1995 we went to work for Public Storage managing a place in Pompano Beach then in 2000 moved to an Extra Space storage facility in West Palm Beach. We left them in 2003 and moved to my son's in North Carolina whom we stayed for a few months. We then came to Lexington to visit my youngest son and found the place we are at now; we took over a self storage business in Lexington, Kentucky.
What part of the world do you live in?
I'm now living in Lexington, Kentucky but have lived in Texas, Louisiana as well as out of a duffel bag from time to time.
How did you find the NCT community?
I saw it mentioned by a guy who used to be here called the Tourist that has posted about this group forming up in knifeforum.com. So I came over and checked it out and have stayed.
Do you have any hobbies besides cooking?
Boy I've had a bunch in my life. They cover a lot of territory here from the martial arts to art in the form of painting be it on canvas to motorcycle and car art. I used to be an avid golfer, scuba diver, sailing to car racing. I've now slowed down to simply reading, and staying close to home.
Give us 5 words that describe you.
Fearless, Honest, Trustworthy, Curious, Happy.
Tell us one thing about yourself that people would be surprised to know.
I hate crowds and I'm pretty quiet when around others.
How and at what age did you start cooking?
As a kid, don't really remember my age at the time but learned from my Grandmother.
Do you have a signature dish or one that you make especially well?
Not really as I'm always trying new things and recipes.
What is your favorite spice?
What ever spice gives the flavor I'm looking for in the dish of the moment.
What is your favorite restaurant meal?
Surf and turf, lobster and steak regardless.
What would your last meal be if you could choose anything at all?
Shrimp cocktail followed buy Lobster tail and rare steak, baked potato with all the fixing and a fresh garden salad.
If you could host a dinner party with 6 well-known guests, living or dead, who would they be and what would you serve?
Albert Einstein, Nicholas Georgeade (doctor at Duke who put me back together again), Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Bill and Hilary Clinton. Probably a menu from one of the meals Thomas Jefferson was known to have put out for guests.
If you were going to be stranded on an isolated island for a year, what 6 foods would you want to have to readily available?
Sea food caught from the waters around the island, fruits, vegetables, pork, and beef.
Who would you most like to prepare a meal for and why. What would you serve?
My daughter, grandmother, grandfather, my wife's parents all of which are now gone. I would leave it up to them as to what to serve, whatever they wanted I would make for them.
Who would you most like to have prepare a meal for you?
Martin Yan or Emeril Lagasse
100 years from now, how would you like to be remembered?
Guess it would be nice to just be remembered.
Anything else you'd like to tell us about yourself?
If I told you more, I would probably have to shoot you.
Well I was born in Miami, Florida and lived there till 1970. I had a serious accident on my 12th birthday that changed the course of my life from that point on. After years of being put back together physically I missed most of my childhood. I meet my wife in high school and married with in months of graduating. Well we got married in Feb. 1964 and we are still together today. We had 4 kids, 3 boys then a girl who died on September 13th, 2001 at 31 years old. My kids have been a prolific bunch in that we have 17 grand kids and 3 great grand kids. I used to tell them when they where young to find something they like and stick with it. I meant a job but then kids hear only what they want to hear when their father speaks.
We have always had cats and dogs but with kids we sure have had a lot of exotic pets through they years too, especially living in South Florida. We currently have 3 house cats and a dog.
Occupations let me think, I've sure had a few in my life. When I graduated high school my first full time job was as a draftsman for a yacht builder in Miami. I then joined the sheet metal apprentice program at my step father's urging. In late 1969 my wife and I packed up the kids and moved due to no work in Florida to Vidor, Texas. One of the first things I did when we got there after going to work was look for some where to work out. I meet a guy that had just got his black belt and was opening a school in Vidor so we opened it together running it together till 1980. In December of 1980 due to some health problems my wife had we moved back to Miami. I quit working as a sheet metal worker in 1979 and was doing body guard work from some corporations while still in Texas. In 1980 I had earned a good reputation and got offers as a free lance courier as well as a body guard for many different groups from governments to private parties. I traveled to 94 countries over the next three years and quit doing it in early 1984. We moved to Louisiana for less than a year returning to Homestead, Florida in early 1985. I then went back to school and got a BS in Computer Science taking a job with Dade County Public Schools as a systems analyst until 1994.
In 1994 we meet a couple that managed a storage facility next door to our place in Homestead Florida. They told us about the storage business which got my wife and I interested in trying it. In 1995 we went to work for Public Storage managing a place in Pompano Beach then in 2000 moved to an Extra Space storage facility in West Palm Beach. We left them in 2003 and moved to my son's in North Carolina whom we stayed for a few months. We then came to Lexington to visit my youngest son and found the place we are at now; we took over a self storage business in Lexington, Kentucky.
What part of the world do you live in?
I'm now living in Lexington, Kentucky but have lived in Texas, Louisiana as well as out of a duffel bag from time to time.
How did you find the NCT community?
I saw it mentioned by a guy who used to be here called the Tourist that has posted about this group forming up in knifeforum.com. So I came over and checked it out and have stayed.
Do you have any hobbies besides cooking?
Boy I've had a bunch in my life. They cover a lot of territory here from the martial arts to art in the form of painting be it on canvas to motorcycle and car art. I used to be an avid golfer, scuba diver, sailing to car racing. I've now slowed down to simply reading, and staying close to home.
Give us 5 words that describe you.
Fearless, Honest, Trustworthy, Curious, Happy.
Tell us one thing about yourself that people would be surprised to know.
I hate crowds and I'm pretty quiet when around others.
How and at what age did you start cooking?
As a kid, don't really remember my age at the time but learned from my Grandmother.
Do you have a signature dish or one that you make especially well?
Not really as I'm always trying new things and recipes.
What is your favorite spice?
What ever spice gives the flavor I'm looking for in the dish of the moment.
What is your favorite restaurant meal?
Surf and turf, lobster and steak regardless.
What would your last meal be if you could choose anything at all?
Shrimp cocktail followed buy Lobster tail and rare steak, baked potato with all the fixing and a fresh garden salad.
If you could host a dinner party with 6 well-known guests, living or dead, who would they be and what would you serve?
Albert Einstein, Nicholas Georgeade (doctor at Duke who put me back together again), Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Bill and Hilary Clinton. Probably a menu from one of the meals Thomas Jefferson was known to have put out for guests.
If you were going to be stranded on an isolated island for a year, what 6 foods would you want to have to readily available?
Sea food caught from the waters around the island, fruits, vegetables, pork, and beef.
Who would you most like to prepare a meal for and why. What would you serve?
My daughter, grandmother, grandfather, my wife's parents all of which are now gone. I would leave it up to them as to what to serve, whatever they wanted I would make for them.
Who would you most like to have prepare a meal for you?
Martin Yan or Emeril Lagasse
100 years from now, how would you like to be remembered?
Guess it would be nice to just be remembered.
Anything else you'd like to tell us about yourself?
If I told you more, I would probably have to shoot you.