My Stint As a Real Cook, Pt. 5
Added 2024-08-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTCIn this installment: health makes me beautiful, I ponder my triumphant return to the gene pool, and I have fantasies.
Comments
Thank you Nate! I'm quite delighted that this little diary excerpt series seems to be engaging people. It makes me wonder if I should get another crap kitchen job and write the next Kitchen Confidential.
Chris Onstad
2024-08-22 03:40:06 +0000 UTCAs a 49-year old man, I am a number that doesn't even compile in their brains, so I exist outside of the quantified realm, and am META DADDY
Chris Onstad
2024-08-22 03:39:00 +0000 UTCThat's the trick of it -- seeing this as a treat rather than a resignation unto a life of bland trudging, trudging, where by the time you reach the grave, your diet has already made you mostly soil. But the visual with the old weak man is apt. The part about the catcher just standing like a guy hit hardest.
Chris Onstad
2024-08-22 03:38:00 +0000 UTCIt's plain to all that they're just messing with us, with that 2 grams a day nonsense. A single Dorito has two grams of salt. Lick the air near the ocean? Two grams. How are we supposed to go in the big Eat America adventure with our hands tied behind our backs like this. How are we supposed to do this whole liberty thing. I call nonsense.
Chris Onstad
2024-08-22 03:36:10 +0000 UTCParsley as a superfood? I am clearly behind the times on matters of health. I refuse the FDA's sodium recommendations. Someone in their offices dropped a decimal point somewhere when it was sodium-measuring time, and you cannot convince me otherwise.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-08-20 07:04:53 +0000 UTCThis picture of steamed carrots and broccoli with sticky rice and parsley as nicely lit and composed as it may seem, makes me feel a little sad. Sort of like when you watch an old baseball player in his 90's throw out the first pitch at a ballgame and they have him standing 20ft from the plate and the catcher is not even in his stance just standing up and everyone cheers like crazy. It's hard to let go of the past
C C
2024-08-15 22:28:02 +0000 UTCThe kids nowadays call a middle aged man becoming more attractive through whatever means "entering their Daddy era." Though to the kids 30 is middle aged, so whatever.
Julie (HiDeeHoGal)
2024-08-14 19:27:19 +0000 UTCYour wrestling of words into phrases such as "like the dark black, dashed vein of filth which runs up the back of an unprepared shrimp" make me a happy person. I really enjoy this series. Again, your writing is fantastic.
NATE WINSTON
2024-08-14 17:15:36 +0000 UTC
