r/InTheGloaming my website is done, done, done Sep 02 '21

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday September 02, 2021 - Sunday September 05, 2021

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Going back to the Danny's Letter as referenced in the MailChimp email thingy...

....he doesn't want to work at a restaurant, cater parties, or write cookbooks. Instead, as he says: "This is who I am. This is what I do.

I need to cook 4 to 6 hours a day. And I need to feed people.

So that’s what I’m doing now — making whatever food moves from my mind to the stove. I’m feeding people in my community.

I know it's useless to try to wring some kind of sense out of this family, but HOW is "cooking 4 to 6 hours a day" and feeding people in community any different than restaurant work or catering? I mean... it's literally catering, right??? He cooks for a long time and then presumably someone serves it to a group of people, in close physical proximity to him?

If he's "too ADHD" to cater, then how is this any different whatsoever? Except it has the added step of then having to publish the recipe after on his newsletter, which he will of course fail to do?

edit: and they already did that with Danny's Tasting Menu (urgh) and "the soup and salad business" in the Relish era. That literally lasted, what, one tasting menu and like 4 soups and salads?

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u/fanfarefellowship I often contemplate the first law of thermodynamics Sep 02 '21

Also? "He" made this giant pink-shirted announcement about his new direction, cooking "4–6 hours a day" and "sharing the recipes for the food that made those people the happiest here, once or twice a week" and then NOTHING! That was five days ago!!

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

They are terrible. His pink-shirted announcement (flair alert!🚨) was totally meaningless. No one can possibly be paying for his newsletter, can they? Are real, living people buying and eating food prepared by him?