Rick's White Light Diner

In the beginning, my mom was the cooking teacher. At the early age of 7, I found myself with my brother, Joe and sister, Joan in the kitchen helping my mom fixing supper. Brother Bruce would join us later in this assignment. I cooked on and off thru my early years. My father would take me fishing and he would cook while I fished, once again learning a new way of cooking, over open flame along the creek bank. I joined the navy in 1966 and reported for active duty in 1968. I wound up cooking for the chief petty officers mess. This enjoyed this duty and I continued to learn about my future profession. After the Navy I went to the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park, New York in 1973 for 2 years of intense studies. Looking back, I realize I was being taught by the best chefs in the business. I graduated in 1975 and headed off to Lexington, Ky, my home town, knowing I knew all in the profession of being a chef!!! WRONG, I really knew very little