Reasons Not to Quit

Reasons Not to Quit

Songs are Vegan

on getting semi-fired with a knife in my hand

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Hanne Blank Boyd
Sep 19, 2023
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Chickpeas. So many chickpeas. Keep reading, you’ll find out.

For Wil Reidie, whose “Lessons from a Kitchen Summer Job” got me remembering all this.

Once upon a time, no one went to work in a professional kitchen because they thought it might be glamorous.  In the early 1990s, at least in Boston, where I was attending conservatory, if you took on your typical kitc…

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