Just a chef and a dog out to see, taste, and spend time with what we can.

I'm pretty relaxed, listen to most all music (preferably 80s punk/hardcore and 70s-90s hip-hop or most electro), tobacco-free, 420-friendly, and I'll cook you something you'll remember for the rest of your life.

In my time I read a lot, garden, print t-shirts and apparel, etch glass, cut vinyl decals and paint on canvas. I also recently took up building indoor greenhouse boxes with power & automated timers, mead brewing, home fermentation and keeping a sourdough culture.

I just do whatever interests me, I always have some projects just beginning and others left unfinished.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm currently in a tight spot and in need of somewhere to rest my dog and my head at night until I'm earning enough to stand on my own two feet. Kitchen work doesn't honestly take very good care of its workers and I have another unfortunate long story to add to the tome of my life.

Anyone that can help for any time, in a place with a nice kitchen or a garden that could use a hand, is someone I can call a friend and somewhere I can call home at this point.

Interests

Food, botany, gardening, woodworking, painting, Adobe Illustrator, screenprinting and vinyl graphics (I've experience/my own LLC: http://hbteeco.storenvy.com), conceptual sciences (metaphysics, quantum mechanics, astrophysics...), bully breed activism, camping, hiking, biking, running, road trips, Eastern culture and history

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• baking
• running
• electronics
• gardening
• technology
• painting
• woodworking
• music
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• animation
• history
• science
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Ska, UK-82 Punk, Old School Hip-Hop (Sugarhill Gang, etc), Drum 'n' Bass

The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Katz;

Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman;

Books/TV by Anthony Bourdain

Anything on ontology, metaphysics, or other conceptual science

Any documentaries/tv on food (Mind of a Chef, Iron Chef, etc)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've made a career from something I fell into accidentally

Teach, Learn, Share

-FOOD-

American Contemporary, Neoclassical American/Nouveau Americana, French, Pan-Asian cooking foundations;

Baking;

Charcuterie practice;

Fermentation and canning/pickling food;

Brewing mead and beer;

Curing meat;

Food science and nutrition in general;

Gardening skills;

-ART-

Painting with multi-layer stencils;

Screenprinting on a budget at home;

Glass Etching;

-TECH-

Building, fixing & maintaining computers, water-cooling setups, gaming rigs, etc.

Building home servers and rigging home networks, video streaming, etc.

Fixing small & mobile electronics

Hacking and boosting next-gen gaming systems

What I Can Share with Hosts

Homemade ferments and pickles, homebrews, sourdough cultures, lots of stories and knowledge from the professional kitchen, home-grown vegetation (depending on the season), lots of love and kisses from a loving pup

Countries I’ve Visited

Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States