| BRIGHT LIGHTS - BIG KITCHENS |
| Jackie first worked professionally
at the East River Tennis Club. |
"My first food service job! Very exciting. I made
a selection of salads, and packaged them up and sold them
to the 'ladies who lunch'. Curried chicken salad with mango
chutney with raisins and toasted almonds inside— it was
all terribly exotic at the time."
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| Then
she took a serious jump to one of the hottest restaurants in
New York at the time. Café Seiyoken. |
"I remember walking into Seiyoken that first night to meet
the chef, Mitsu Kikuchi. Jaw on the floor! It was the most
stunning restaurant I'd ever seen. And an amazing kitchen
to work in. Spotless, organized and great food. I was hired
and I had dinner there that night. From that moment, I was
hooked on fine dining. No drugs or alcohol for me. I'd found
my vice!
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| Her pursuit of
quality food standards wound up jumping her from the kitchen
to the manager's position at Serendipity. |
"I went in for a cook's job and complained about
it being so disorganized. They asked me to change it and gave
me the back house manager position. What an amazing place!
A real institution. Flat out busy from opening to close. It
wasn't just a sea of frozen hot chocolates either. It had
its share of glamour too. I managed Chastity Bono's birthday
party and Lorna Luft's baby shower. Liza Minnelli asked me
where the john was. Very glamorous."
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