amarriageoftrueminds:

I was thinking about that question Seb got asked at Wizard World about how Bucky was making money in the two years before Civil War no Mackie he was not a dancer and consider this: 

Bucky as a cook.

• scary-good with knives
• never needs an order repeated / never fucks one up
• working through his ‘automatic-obedience’ trauma in a low-stakes environment
• hidden away from the public / less chance of being spotted
• using the supersoldier!stamina to stay on his feet for hours without flagging and the grace to move around the kitchen like a dancer
• telling the other staff he has a badly burned arm/hand (which is why he’s shy and has to wear a glove all the time)
• picking up red-hot pans/handling hot food without getting burned because he’s using his metal hand
• getting the habit of wearing his hair up in a bun (or in a hairnet!!)
• learning to enjoy food again

  (aka, how he got thicc)

  because the Winter Soldier only ever ate to replenish energy or was force-fed through a tube 

• going to the market for good produce for the restaurant (plums!!)
• being an uppity restaurant-patron’s worst nightmare when they make the mistake of asking to see the Chef.