The BusinessDay CEO Magazine August 2017 (2)
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>BusinessDay</strong> <strong>CEO</strong>, Aug <strong>2017</strong> | 26<br />
Olamide Jinadu: What piece of advice would you give a young person interested in being a chef?<br />
Chef Eros: Be original. I find that a lot of young people are always trying to be like someone else and<br />
that's the fastest way to lose focus on who you really are and what you can bring to the table. Find that<br />
thing you love to cook, and create new versions of it because it's the key to creating a niche for<br />
yourself.<br />
It goes the same for me, I started with cookies and I kept making them and this overflowed into other<br />
things. <strong>The</strong> other bit of advice I'd give is to stay focused. I know it might sound cliche but it's pretty<br />
important.<br />
Olamide Jinadu: Of all your creations, which is your favourite?<br />
Chef Eros: My puff-puff. I know it sounds funny but seriously the puff-puff boutique is what I'm most<br />
excited about because we have 15 different flavors.<br />
We have the sweet and the savory. Ones filled with jam, cream and lemon curd. <strong>The</strong>n we have the<br />
ones filled with tomato jam, pepper and peas puree. You know how the Chinese have the chicken and<br />
sweetcorn soup? So we blend that and fill it into the puff-puff as a puree. We also blend sauteed<br />
shrimps into a paste and fill it into the puff-puff.<br />
I'm really excited with what we're going to do with that is the puff-puff boutique. It will be an event,<br />
somewhat private but the goal is to have people come in and taste them, see their reactions to it and<br />
basically change the culture around food in Lagos.
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