I apologize in advance for the long drawn out caption but this milestone only happens once and I don’t think I’ve ever really explained how I got here.
I recorded my first ever video 9 years ago today—it was a drunken rant in the backyard of a fraternity house after I had just successfully catered for 120 people, including Bill Levitan, the creator of Modern Family, whose name is in fact Steve. From there“The College Cook” was born.
The focus of the college cook was a catering business & late night food/brunch restaurant in 2017-2018. In the spring of 2018 I dropped it all to backpack across Asia. I filmed the entire 4 months, aside from the clips in here I’ve never looked at or released any of the footage. Someday, when I can stomach how cringeworthy 20 year old me was, I’ll sit down and go through it all.
On that trip I met The Wonton Don in Korea and got an internship at Barstool. That same summer I was featured on an episode of food network Chopped. From there I really thought...