My name is Wild Freeze, and this is the Sunday Scariest Podcast.

You're here for the Sunday Blues.

I knew what Amanda Rockman's creations tasted like before I even knew who she was.

Being in Austin, you just get familiar with certain restaurants.

Just last week, I had dinner at La Palateque downtown.

We enjoyed everything from lobster frees to desserts that I really still can't even pronounce.

When I was brought the opportunity to interview her after we ate, I knew I had to take it.

On paper, she's the culinary director of New Waterloo Hospitality Group in Austin, Texas.

But through our conversation, you'll learn that she's much more, and she doesn't even need coffee to accomplish everything in front of her.

Oh, and the other voice you might hear throughout the interview? Well, it may be a bit familiar as well.

It's Alex Rideshack, who's on this same podcast back in March. Hope you enjoy.

Amanda, thank you for coming in today. My pleasure.

Let's just start right off with it. Describe exactly what you do or what your day to day is.

Oh, well, it depends on the day, actually.

So, for example, right now, I'm at La Palateque. The chef is leaving. He's moving on from New Waterloo.

Thank you for his time.

And so, essentially, I have to go in there and work with the sous chef team and all the cooks to basically make sure that service is running well.

We're ordering correctly. The food looks good.

And then fix any issues that we currently have. So that's staffing, you know, systems.

So that's ordering prep sheets, recipes, you know, income junction with working with the front of the house at the general manager to make sure that we're communicating, you know, the kitchen needs to the front of house with that, you know, the guests have a good time.

Sometimes it's me coming up with a new pastry menu for a Bruto. Sometimes it's me taping a podcast like today or doing an event with mumble like tonight.

So it really is all over the place.

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