What is the best place for me to get a job if I want to start a career in cooking/restaurant?

Having over 20 years experience in restaurants, all the way from McD's to award winning pastry chef, and everything in between, my advice is to start at the bottom in a privately owned semi-gourmet restaurant. These establishments are more likely to advance from within, and generally are a lot more fun to work for.

Restaurant kitchens are an intensely stressful environment, and prone to deep attachments within the employees, much like soldiers on the front line. Have you perchance seen the movie Waiting...? This is a very accurate depiction of what to expect in kitchens. The only way to seriously advance, as far as a career is concerned, is to specialize (pastry, garde manger, saucier, etc.), hire on with a high profile company( Hilton, Sheraton, Radisson, etc.) as they not only advance senior employees, but have the ability to transfer you if the position you wish is available on another of their properties. In my opinion there is also the Emirell-Rachel Ray approach to fame, have very little talent, but know whose organ to accept in your mouth. Believe me it will take you about a year in a good kitchen to realize what total hacks these people are.

I would get myself a food license if i were you and put up a food booth to sell my own specialized menu cuisine. Sounds like you're on the right track to a lucrative profession and career. Good Luck.

I would start in a restaurant

I would try contacting a recruiter at http://www.therecruiterdirectory.com/