Salt, Sweat & Steam

Washington, a Trinidadian who came to the US for college, decided to apply to the Culinary Institute of America after a break-up. As editor of CIA's 'La Papillote: The Voice of the Student Chef', she got to see how the sausage was made (literally). In one day, she would go from studying the five mother sauces in Skills 1 to interviewing Thomas Keller for a front-page feature. Sucked into the brigade system, she believed the gospel that pressure was a privilege. As one of the few students of colo