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December 21, 2020 by Spencer McMillin

Running Away From Home Week 3

Last week started out with figurative tumbleweeds blowing across the dining room.  As my stalwart cooks reported for duty Wednesday afternoon, a heavy blanket of snow was turning Main Street into a scene from It’s a Wonderful Life. In a beautifully … [Read more...] about Running Away From Home Week 3

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December 14, 2020 by Spencer McMillin

Running Away From Home Week 2

Running Away from Home Week 2 Ok.  I survived.  And I actually don’t feel too bad, considering. Normally, a fifty-hour work week on hard cement floors would have me moaning around the house post-shift like a Monday morning linebacker.  But, for … [Read more...] about Running Away From Home Week 2

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December 13, 2020 by Spencer McMillin

So You Think You’re a Chef (Redux)

So, You Think You’re a Chef (Redux) In a fit of frustration, I wrote a scathing and inappropriate piece for the short-lived L’Ecole Culinaire monthly newsletter back in 2012.  Fed up with student apathy, the excuses, the rampant absenteeism, the … [Read more...] about So You Think You’re a Chef (Redux)

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December 8, 2020 by Spencer McMillin

Running Away From Home

RUNNING AWAY FROM HOME   For the most part, our leaving Memphis was a non-story. And frankly we planned it that way.  It was tempting to make a big announcement, of course; maybe stretch out our impending exodus like a Kiss Farewell Tour … [Read more...] about Running Away From Home

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October 18, 2020 by Spencer McMillin

Chasing Tony

  In early 2000, nearly broke and nursing a bad case self-pity I took a low paying kitchen manager position at a bookstore cafe. It consisted of ordering food, scheduling, and pressuring trust fund babies into making the crap we served … [Read more...] about Chasing Tony

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September 3, 2020 by Spencer McMillin

Grains of Salt

My father was right—damn him—when throughout my childhood he pounded into my head the tired old adage ‘success is a results business’. Of course, he was gently pointing out that all of my futile dreams; the fantasy of playing drums for Rush despite a … [Read more...] about Grains of Salt

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