Food service workers

[Monello]

AB put the fun in dysfunction.

"In America, the professional kitchen is the last refuge of the misfit ... Most of us who live and operate in the culinary underworld are in some fundamental way dysfunctional."

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[Monello]

"Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher."
–Anthony Bourdain

 

[black dog]

"Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher."
–Anthony Bourdain

He learned how to tie knots as a dishwasher?

 

[Merlin99]

"Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher."
–Anthony Bourdain

Is this the cooks version of “everything important I learned in kindergarten”?

 

[Monello]

Is this the cooks version of “everything important I learned in kindergarten”?

Poulet consommé for the soul.

 

[Monello]

You might get the impression from the specifics of my less than stellar career that all line cooks are wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts and psychopaths. You wouldn't be too far off base. The business attracts 'fringe elements', people for whom something in their lives has gone terribly wrong.