What I listened to / read
While I'm watching "Brunt" , a movie about Chef who attempt to get Michelin's three- star , I just though of some Thai street food cuisine has just got this award. Then , I went on BBC News , searched about the Michelin's star and found an interesting topic named "French chef Bras gives up Michelin stars"
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What it says
"ํEvery meal that goes out could be inspected" Mr. Bras said. Mr. Bras is a French chef of Sebastien Bra's Le Suquet restaurant who held Michelin's three - star rating for 18 years . He decided to give up his top's rating after getting a huge pressure of being inspected every year. He is not the first luxury restaurant chef who bow out his eatery of the stars.
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My response
A few week ago, I heard about some Thai eateries received the Michelin's stars . One of interesting cuisine is "Jay-Fai cuisine" which is Thai - street food restaurant. Even though , there no any luxury seats , graven teak tables or air conditioners , the prices of food in is very high. Jay-Fai , owner and chef ,served her customer with premium grade of seafood and materials. "The price is reasonable and her food is great and that's why my cuisine got this award", she said.
At first , I thought Michelin's star is great.There're many benefits to our tourism and economy because this award can persuade foreigners to travel and try Thai food. Moreover, This award can indicate the skill and deftness of the chef.
After reading Mr. Bra's feeling , My mind was change. I've never thought about the huge pressure and serious inspection those chef has to face. I imagined myself as an owner of big well-known bakery . Every piece of bread could be evaluated and I don't know when. This lead me feel uncomfortable and unhappy with my work. I prefer the small bakery where I can design and bake my bread freely.
Working under pressure is good , this make people more patient and forceful . But, it can lead people feel stressed and then give up .As I'm a senior in university , pressure from studying drives me work harder but it's also make me feel dispirited many times. The best way to apply pressure to your work is balancing it. Let pressure drives you focus on work but don't let it ruins your feeling.
Although I like the reasons that Fern gives for approving it, I'm not sure how I feel about working under pressure. If you are, for example, enrolled in an IELTS preparation class, you do sometimes need to be under the pressure of doing a task in limited time. Nonetheless, most academic and other quality work is best done when self-motivated people challenge themselves because they think the work is worth working hard at.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I try to create opportunities for my students, such as yourselves, to challenge themselves, I'm not responsible for whether they take up those opportunities or not, and I think it's probably unhelpful, even counter-productive, if I pressure students to do work that they might have good reasons, such as other important commitments, for not always doing. And there is a tiny selfish reason: the less work my students submit, the less pressure there is on me to check it! (I definitely feel an obligation to check everything that students submit, and to give constructive feedback on it.)
Thanks Fern for the very thoughtful and thought-provoking response to the article you shared with us.