Cooking with Peachy

Hello everyone! My full name is Peachy Concepcion, Filipino citizen and currently living in Switzerland since 2005. My parents were both good cooks. Although they have always cooked for our family, I can say that both had very good taste. So, since I was a little girl, I was already exposed to the kitchen, watching my mother cooking and asking her questions about ingredients. In short, I was always fascinated with food. At very young age, I learned many recipes and this I owe to my parents. After high school, I moved to Manila to continue my university studies. I took the course in Computer Science, but I was not able to finish it. I found myself working at King Crab House, a Chinese restaurant, where one of the owners was a good friend of my sister. At first, I was trained as a cashier and I was assigned to their branch in Greenhills. Afterwards, they transferred me to their King Crab House subsidiary in Makati. It was there where I learned most. I became a cashier, a food controller, a waitress, a beneficial order and more particularly, a warehouse manager. Being a manager has given me the opportunity to know many new products and various spices which were used by our chefs. It’s through that experience that I had most of my ideas in the kitchen. Although some of the recipes I learned from King Crab House were really good, I wanted to see most of them with my interpretation and a little of my imagination. Since I am really fussy in cooking, some of the dishes that I created, I had to repeat more than once to get the exact flavour I wanted. Cookbooks are not for me, they only confuse me. I believe that not everything can be taught and revealed in there. But there are some that are very reliable and informative.

My goal now is to teach people how to cook simple meals without using expensive ingredients. I share everything on the basis of my personal experience. I’ve never been to cooking schools, everything just came from my passion for cooking.

Thank you!