I follow a lot of chefs on Twitter. I’m not sure why, exactly. Like many Twitter users, what they have to say is sometimes wonderful and enlightening; other times it’s just the stupid banter they exchange with their peers. There is the odd recipe link or photo to some food porn picture they’ve taken but one thing that seems to be a constant is they tweet about going out to eat.
You might find it odd that people who run kitchens and make food for a living would choose to spend their down-time on the other side of the pass-through but I don’t. In fact, I think it’s a great business point. Continue reading
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Going Out To Eat
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The Ambulance
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Suppose you’re exercising and start to feel shaky. You get kind of clammy and you’re sweating profusely. Sure, you haven’t eaten yet and maybe you should have been drinking more water as you went, but right now you know you’re in trouble.
So you call an ambulance just to be on the safe side, especially since you feel as if you might pass out. There are probably 100 thoughts going through your mind but one of them isn’t “will the ambulance show up” or even “will someone answer 911”, right? Continue reading
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The Reserve Tank
I’m writing this post from my back-up computer. Actually, it’s the back-up to my back-up and I’ve fired it up because I’m using my real back-up to do my work since my main desktop died. Turns out there are really excellent reasons to turn your computer off at night besides the environmental concerns and those reasons involve fried capacitors (mmm…fried!). But that’s not our subject this morning nor is a rant about the evil machines that run our lives. Continue reading
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Consult Keith 