About Lamour Workman

I am a lover of all things food. If you look carefully, every tale has a food story. I am a chef of more years than I care to say. Classically trained in France, my approach often reflects the skill and rigor of my education. However, I am always mindful of making my recipes accessible to the home cook. I live in New York City’s borough of Queens, where everyone on the planet has carved out a place for themselves. My food reflects who I am, where I call home and how everyday encounters shape how I cook and experience food. That is why it is called A Chef’s Life in Queens: Bricolage Gastronomy.

The relationship between identity and eating gives food a central role in creating community, and we use our diet to convey images of public persona. To eat is to distinguish and discriminate, include, and exclude. Our food choices establish boundaries and borders. Today this process of culinary differentiation may entail major modification of traditional foods. Few people today eat exactly what their grandparents ate many years ago, and many of us like to cross group boundaries to eat Others’ food.

If you are an ardent purest, this blog is not for you as I take creative license by changing, substituting, and eliminating ingredients in a recipe that rings true to who I am and where I’ve been. I hope you will find my posts interesting, informative, and inspiring, as I love sharing and engaging via food.

Food is the first of the essentials for life. Food means creativity and diversity; it indicates who we are and where we come from and who we want to be. Food reveals our souls.