Lynea
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Today's victim is Jacopo_Belbo. He's a professional chef and just moved halfway across the country, IIRC. I don't know much about him, so hopefully we will all know a little more.....soon. 
Previous Focus On victims include:
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You only moved halfway across the country! Slacker! I just moved from Nevada to Virginia  Weee ....
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I moved from Miami to Pembroke Pines once.
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Get typing!
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Who's this??
Never seen him??
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Cant wait. Jacopo's a real cool poster, and has great taste in music, especially jazz
Shaz: Jacopo's been posting here for a long while now...
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he has?? 
Wow... Never seen him so... lol...
*yawns*
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Is he the guy that was a line cook in Kansas City?
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Lynea
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Reapist posted:
Is he the guy that was a line cook in Kansas City?
KC, yes.....pretty sure he is a trained chef, though I could be wrong.
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Are we there yet?
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Haven't seen him post in a long while.
Not since he posted about moving out to Cali to take a job with one of the best Chefs in the world.
Great poster, hope he sees this.
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Tag. He used to post on the cooking boards occasionally.
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Ptilk posted:
Haven't seen him post in a long while.
Not since he posted about moving out to Cali to take a job with one of the best Chefs in the world.
Great poster, hope he sees this.
Last Board Login Date: 04/23/2007 6:55:08 AM
Last Board Post Date: 04/23/2007 7:01:00 AM
Maybe I'll PM him. I'm running out of regulars that haven't already had a Focus On thread in the past. I'll probably choose a few of them next week.
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sorry bout not seeing this, what with the move and new work situations i've had little time to visit the board...i will get on this soon...
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I seem to remember that he either worked for or was the boss of AC_Administrator, as well.
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umm, i'll go wif a short one cause i gotta get to work, then if y'all have questions, let em fly!!!
i was born in san francisco in 1966 to a poet/painter (mom) and a poet sculpter (dad)
my dad turned out to be a bit of a nut case so my mom and he divorced when i was just 2 i believe. i had some contact with him until i was about 13, then decided it was easier to just let it go, and i'm not even sure he is still alive, although last i heard he was in albq NM. my step dad Paul moved in with my mom when i was four, and he, along with my mom's brother and a few other male role models comprised my composite dad until i was about 17. my step dad and mom split around that time.
i attended washington high school in SF (go Eagles!) graduated in 1984 with a fondness for acting, music, journalism, english and history. i took a job at the magic pan crepery on sutter in sf tp save money to move to boston to attend the berklee college of music. i am a drummer/percussionist with an emphasis on funk/pop/rock/fusion styles. i spent 2 years in school in berklee, got a good group of dudes to tegether and formed a band called scouts honor. we played around boston- most of us living in a 5 bedroom house of decadence we called the rasta hut-but after four years of cooking partying, gigging, brutal winters, muggy summers we bought a big blue bus and decided to make an 11 day road trip with our wordly belongings back to SF.
the band lived on the bus for a few months while we got day jobs and invaded the recording studio to cut a demo to get some gigs. during this time i also worked on side projects and a few recording gigs to earn extra coin to supplement my restaurant work. we all got it together and had an interesting 6 year run that saw us opening up for such bands as sharkbait, psychefunkapus, primus, limbomaniacs, the foo fighters before they broke and even nirvana (cobain was sullen but mostly nice) other highlights include mr bungle in chico cal, three sucessful tours through new mexico and arizona and 2 through pacific northwest. we made a little spending money, and enough to keep the van in fuel, and us in the studio when we could. we eventually gained management with david lefkowitz primus manager, but that relationship never panned out into anything. we added a killer lead vocalist and again got ready to sign management contracts but the singer backed out last minute and the band broke up. i am still close friends with all those guys and we see each other often esp. now i am back in cali.
it was around that time i decided to dedicate more time and emphasis on my culinary endevours....
and now i must go--to be continued!
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so as my music aspirations were slowly crumbling, i landed a job at one the best restaurants in the country at the time Square One. Owned by the pragmatic and talented Joyce Goldstein, this restaurant was known for freshness and re-interpreting classic Mediterranean Cuisine through the so called California Cuisine lens. I gained an incredible amount of knowledge and had an incredible time making friendships that last to this day. i rode to sous chef there before moving on to Inverness CA to be co-chef of a little lodge called Manka's.
duting my time at Square One some significant things happened along with the afore mentioned food education in fine dining...i met my future wife to be who was a pastry assistant there. we had a fine friendship for about a year, then eventually fell for each other, i propsed to her on our fifth anniversary after we had moved to Kansas City (more on that later) and we were married in SF in April of 2000.
the second significant thing that happened during that time was i lost a friend, a contemporary and an excellent musician was tragically killed in an auto accident at the age of 26. it was devastating, and aside from my mother's mom passing two years erarlier, i had had no direct contact with death of anyone close to me. luckily, it did bring a lot of people together an we celebrated his life with music, poetry and lots of late night dicussions and philosophical spw on the NATURE OF THINGS. in 2000 i lost another friend to the ravages of alcohol-a second brother to me and one of my closest confidants from my square one days R.I.P. tim! speacking of brothers- i have one bro and one sis both from mom's first marriage and bothe 13 and 10 years older than i respectively. i have a 22 year old niece who just got married last september (my sis's daughter) my sister is currently going through chemo for very early stae breast cancer, and after a round of radiation is expected to be cancer free for years to come!!!
after a strange and bucolic small town experience in Inverness, my wife and i decided to move to Kansas City-her family was there, and, Ironically, my mom had moved there years earlier with her current and final (number 6) husband-well, to a town called sedalia about an hour away from KC. we spent 10 years there cooking, getting into the food scene. i kept playing drums for fun and gigged around off and on with a series of fairly decent popo punk bands. we opened our own cafe and had a fairly successful run for 5 years before economics and some mismanagement on our part led us to sell in '03. we continued to work and began our planning for our eventual return to california. while we were in KC our delightful son was born in 2002-he is our pride and joy, and is growing into an articulate, smart, creative little boy...it was also in kansas city that i met the guy you all know as Dutch MAster-we played in a band together for a little while, and then again years later, and finally i hired him to work in my kitchen for about a year, budget consideration led me let him go, and i believe he is doing graphic art work and working on getting his comic book art...
after our final long winter in KC we finally got our dollars together and loaded up the truck and moved to NAPA CA. where are now gainfully employed, renting a huge house near a feeder creek to the Napa river, and getting ourselves settled in. i am still looking for an executive chef position and hope to find one that fits in next 6 months. the weather is fantastic, i have been to a couple of giants games, ia m enjoying Warriors fever, and overall happy to be back in california...well its off to transfer title to our old eurotrash wagon now..again any questions just fire away and i'll try to get to them when i can.
thank you all for your patience
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Cool.
Great read.
Best of luck on finding the perfect gig out in California.
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
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thanks guys!!
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