Brunching Like a Local in Reno
While attending school in Reno, I've been able to make so many new friends. One friend in particular, Gracie, is a local. I had been telling her about my love of food, but not knowing where to go to eat off campus. Gracie knew exactly what to do, so we set out on a little adventure to get brunch at one of her favorite places, Creme.
I also want to add that the decor at this place is so intriguing. It's got a bit of a vintage vibe to it.
So for food, Gracie and I split an order of beignets and I got a cinnamon swirl mocha to drink.
Next came our main courses. I decided I wanted something savory so I got the All-American, which consists of two eggs, bacon, potatoes, and an English muffin. I'll probably get this next time I'm there since it was so good.
Gracie got the Nutella crepes with a side of fruit and scrambled eggs. I just gotta say that I'm not the biggest fan of melon, but she insisted I try the yellow watermelon and I gotta say it's a game changer for me.
Lastly, Gracie and I decided to take some outfit pictures. We didn't even plan on wearing black tops and printed bottoms so look at us being all matchy matchy.
Thank you for reading lovelies!
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ReplyDeleteMy thoughts were racing back and forth. There was so much to process with one sentence that was said to me. On one hand I’d start getting paid and be able to buy anything my 12 year old self wanted, but on the other, I’d lose so much of my personal time after school. But did I have a choice? No I really did not, I had to do this for my family. I looked up at my father with the best poker face I could manage, hiding my emotions, and asked him, “When do we start!?” which to my dismay he replied, “Next month”. The establishment of El Tacontento Authentic Mexican Food was under way, and little did I know at the time that I was going to have a major role to play in its upbringing. I may have not completely understood this back then, but today I see things a different way, and I am grateful for this lifestyle change as it had a major impact on my personality and character.
I was used to having all the time in the world after school to do whatever I wanted. I’d do my homework but after that my day would consist of me doing whatever I felt like doing. When my father lost his job after 22 years at his company it was a pretty major reality check for me. I realized that all of that time I had I took for granted. My father had to act quick if he was to continue to maintain our family. At first, he began to look for other jobs but my father had always had an aspiring dream in the back of his head to open a restaurant. He saw this as the perfect opportunity to start anew, to do what he always wanted to do. But he couldn’t do this by himself, he needed help. It was just my mother, my father, and I in the household at the time so that was what we had to make do with. My father invested his entire savings into starting the business, our first location was a food truck parked on the corner of a tire shop.
Before we actually began selling food however, there was a lot of things to be done to the food truck to make sure it was up to health standards. I would go with my father to help clean it. I very vividly remember the musty, greasy air in the truck leftover from the previous owner. I entered the truck for first time and almost gagged with the wretched smell coming from it. Think rotten eggs and fish mixed with three year old grease. Needless to say, there was a lot of work to be done to get this up to standards. It was not the most pleasant experience but we got the job done in a bit over a week by deep cleaning practically everything that we saw. By the time we were done with it, the 10 year old truck looked good as new. If this was going to be our pride and joy and we had to make it look like it my father always said.
It was finally opening day, the day I was anticipating for over a month. I got home from school to help load all of the supplies and ingredients to bring to the food truck. The green, slightly wet cilantro, chopped onions that we had prepared the day before, and all of the salsa, from mild to flaming hot as well. A week before, my parents sat down to explain to me the role that I would be playing at the restaurant. I’d be the cashier, the person who took the customers order but to do that, we had to come up with a menu. After a few hours we came up with a pretty solid menu that I’d be happy with if I went to a different restaurant with that menu. I spent the entire week memorizing it, from top to bottom, left and right. The most minor detail of what an item contained was ingrained into my mind. I could not mess this up. We finally got set up and opened the truck for the first time at 4 30 pm on Friday October 12th, 2012.
He came and said “I have read this over about 15 times and still don’t understand what he is trying to say, could you take a look for me”? I obviously obliged and I do admit that I did have to read it twice myself, but I remember getting it after that. I then tried to explain it to my Dad in a way that was closer to the type of English that we spoke at home, and about halfway through my explanation he connected the dots and figured it out. After he thanked me and left, I remember saying to myself, “That was the first time that my Dad has ever come to me for help, instead of the other way”. This is the point where I believe that I started to truly develop my own personal style of writing. Being at a level that was above that of my parents allowed me to take the old English that I had learned from them and from textbooks with the English that I had learned through my own accord and mold them into my own version of English. I was able to combine the things that I had learned on my own with that which was taught to me.
ReplyDeleteComing from a home that only spoke a foreign language has had such a huge impact on my life, and who I am as a person, and the type of English that I speak and write. The combination of textbook definitions and the textbooks straight forward dry sentences, with the new English that I have learned through my life experience. The combination of different people that I met from different backgrounds, and from different cultures, has had a huge impact on the way that I speak and express myself today. Combining this with the English I learned from books and definitions has made my English better, and its own, unique version that I use to express my past and my present experience and culture every day.
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