I Used Chat GPT for the First Time

Plus a potato, white bean and asparagus salad with garlic scape pesto, and how to pair wine with garlic.

Today

• Fingerling potatoes, white beans, and asparagus with garlic scape pesto – I love this option as a nearly worry-free option for outdoor dining!

• Preserved scapes, two ways

• Wine Pairings for Difficult Flavours (ie garlic and garlic scapes)

It’s The End of the World as We Know It. I Feel Fine.

I used ChatGPT for the first time yesterday.

I’ve literally never even been on the platform it’s been so anathema to my being. And until I typed it into Google, I honestly thought it was Chat gBt.

The reason for my succumbing is I have an inquiry for an event – a wine tasting – and for some utterly bizarre reason, the host wants to see my resume. (Not my company’s background, testimonials from past clients, or examples of past events, my personal work history. Because knowing I was a television news anchor in 2007 will make all the difference to a cheese and wine, I guess.)

I laughed (more like snorted) at the request. (It came in an email; I’m not that rude.)

I wanted to say, “lady, I’ve run a small business for 13 years. My resume is: I celebrate the good days, resist throwing myself into oncoming traffic on the bad ones, and try not to cry in public.”

But because adulting means you can’t actually say what you want to say when someone says something stupid, you just smile and say, “ok, great.”

And that’s how I found myself staring at the landing page of ChatGPT (not Chat GBT).

Ah, nuts, folks. From here we go to behind the velvet rope for premium subscribers only.

I wish I could take you all along, but I didn’t become the flailing owner of a tiny business titan of industry by not knowing my way around a PnL statement. That stands for Perrier-Jouet n’ Louis Roederer, if you need me to explain biznaz to you.

The good news is, you can upgrade for as little as $6 Cdn a month (or $60 annually), which is just over $4 USD, and basically free in Euros.