struck, she has worked as Executive Pastry Chef. When Velez’s name is spoken, people in the industry perk up with respect and devotion., Velez shared some of the ways she's empowered her team to speak up, express their humanity, and even take care of her from time to time.
The other day I was talking to the girls [on the team]—and I don't even remember what they were talking about. They like to talk about my feet because they look like Cabbage Patch Kids dolls' feet, and that I remembered that laughter and jest and being around them. I started crying because I missed them. But in this [then] two-month period, so far, I feel like now that we're not so focused on making 500 or something to serve for dinner service, and we found friendship.
Then they come back and they're like, "Hey, hug time. You need a hug. you're stressed," or they'll force me to take walks. The staff actually takes care of me a lot more than I feel like I take care of them, but I do take care of them too. It's like a giving cycle. It's been one of the healthiest years that I've ever had in a kitchen.I started doing this when I was 15, and trust me, pastry wasn't as loving and as open as it is today.
And that's exactly what I did. The first thingI did when I met DeAndra, my pastry sous who's been working at Kith and Kin since opening. They didn't have a pastry chef for a long time, so it could be very weird to feel like there's somebody that's coming in with whatever reputation. I could have just barreled in and been like, "This is my way oi the highway, blah, blah, blah.
Three months passed, then six months, and then a year, and we talk. She's seen me in the office crying out of frustration, and she'll run to the smoothie store and buy me a smoothie and say, "You need to hydrate. You need to do this. You're great." She'll build me back up when I'm down in the same way. And I've seen DeAndra grow in such a magnificent way where I see her I'm like, "Oh my God, she's going to be a pastry chef.
. And I was like, "No, man, you guys are so powerful." If somebody had just talked to me straight-up when I was younger, instead of telling me all the no, telling me all the yes.
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