OUR TOWN
Daeon Hudson: Cooking comes from the heart, and when it’s made with love, it tastes even better. However, not everyone knows how to cook. Some learn from their parents and grandparents, and others just have a passion for food. Daeon Hudson, senior ITAM major at CWU, has had a passion for cooking ever since he was young. Hudson started off making simple dishes, such as steak and fried bologna, but it wasn’t until 2018 that he realized he had a love for cooking. Hudson makes dishes and sells them on the side. He started posting his
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food on Snapchat and Instagram, and it took off from there. Hudson went to Grocery Outlet to buy food supplies, bought to-go containers off Amazon and his love for cooking grew even more. “It’s just a way for me to express myself and a way for me to be at peace, you know, some other hobby, outside of sports and everything and it’s just like being in a kitchen gives me a peace of mind,” Hudson says. Being in the kitchen is a comfort to Hudson, and he says he could stay there all day if he needed to. Just recently, he made gumbo. In order to make a good
gumbo, it needs a good roux. Hudson says it takes an hour of straight stirring to make the roux, but he finds joy in his cooking. “It’s beneficial to the world, everybody loves good food, any food every day… like people love good food and they’re always looking for the next bite,” Hudson says. Later on down the road, Hudson aspires to utilize his skills and open a food truck. Then, turn that into a restaurant or a few, but he wants it to stay small and more local rather than becoming a chain restaurant.
