26 May 2013

Breakfast:  in the large cast iron fry pan:

• hash brown potatoes
• well cooked bacon
• two eggs boiled fried in the bacon fat
• coffee
• cold water

Lunch: Dairy Queen for:

• six pieces of chicken
  
• french fries
  
• a very small container of gravy
  
• medium "Diet Pepsi"
  
• banana split with:
  
  • all vanilla ice creamme
    
  • fudge dressing
    
  • extra whipped creamme

Anthony Bourdain wrote that restaurant managers must have "nervous feet" and walk around talking with the customers. One of the clerks screwed up on my wife's order and that of another customer. The manager walked around apologizing and explaining. This made Kathie feel better and we are much more likely to return that we would have without speaking with the manager.Without speaking with the manager, I would have been bad mouthing them vice praising them!

Dinner:  highly seasoned roast beef, Kathie's rice pilaf, asparagus and cold water.

Desert: a gin-n-tonic

Wisdom from Anthony Bourdain

"And if twenty-eight years in the restaurant business had taught me
anything at all, it was that if things look good today, they will most
assuredly turn to shit tomorrow."

Anthony Bourdain

"Medium Raw"

Anthony Bourdain "Medium Raw" (also Good vs Evil)

_____"There is no lying in the kitchen. And no god there, either. He couldn't help you anyway. You either can - or can't - chop an onion, shake a pan, keep up with the other cooks, replicate again and again, perfectly, the dishes that need to be done. No credential, no amount of bullshit, no well-formed sentences or pleas for mercy will change the basic facts. The kitchen is the last meritocracy - a world of absolutes; one knows without any ambiguity at the end of each day how one did. "Good" and "evil" are easily and instantly recognized for what they are. Good is a cook who shows up on time and does what he said yesterday he was going to do. Evil is a cook who's full of shit and doesn't or can't do what he said he was going to do. Good is a busy restaurant from which the customers go home happy and everybody makes money. Evil is a slow restaurant from which the cooks go home feeling depressed and ashamed.”
 

 This was copied from "Medium Raw" b y Anthony Bourdain and used in the spirit of fair usage. The man writes very well and what he has written here can apply to so many other aspects of life...