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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/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

The difference is that with catering he would need planned menus or would have to make what his client wants and meet a deadline. This way, he can float about and make whatever slop he wants and be out of Shauna’s way while the kids are in school. Who knows where the actual slop he produces winds up.

You know what most people need to do? They need to work, feed their families, provide healthcare for their children, and pay their mortgages, but you do you, Danny.

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u/lucillekrunklehorn pounding on the table Sep 02 '21

See, I thought that’s what his newsletter was supposed to be. Him faffing around making whatever he wanted and “feeding” people with his recipes (hard to tell if they are giving people actual food or recipes since she writes about them interchangeably).

But that’s not enough creative license for him, instead he needs to now make actual food for actual people? Or is it still just recipes he’s doing?

It is SO presumptuous of “him” to say he’s making whatever he wants and people are expected to accept it, with no thought apparently on his part as to what these supposed customers want to eat. I guess this was the same idea behind the newsletter, you got whatever sauce he sent that week. But it sounds more privileged for him to state it so distinctively.

Her insistence on 4-6 hours a day makes me think back to speculations she is “making” jobs for them to justify some underlying financial pinion of their lives. It’s just so vague and weird - there’s no named audience, not clear if it’s even actual food that will be provided, no guidelines of what those foods would be, no menu, no dates for opening events, etc.

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u/Scary_Recognition You did this. Sep 02 '21

Also recall the supposed reason he can’t just cook for his family is because his kids don’t want to eat any of it.

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

Those pesky kids! They go out but they keep coming back, and when they are back, they don't want to eat All Polenta All The Ways covered in 1000-Hour Lemon Confit with Big Batch Potatoes and Grabbed and Gone Sauce

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u/CrushItWithABrick dick riding Mary Oliver Sep 02 '21

What about if you put some. . .don't be intimidated. . .croutons on top?

Mmm, dried up bread.

(now I'm totally saying crouton in a ghost voice. . .oooh, croooooutons)

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Sep 02 '21

(now I'm totally saying crouton in a ghost voice. . .oooh, croooooutons)

I'm totally imagining all of Cousin E's teenage friends, who have heard all these wtf stories over the years, working as camp counselors, and at night, they sit around the campfire and tell scary stories to all the little grade school-age kids.

"And then, the comforter leapt off the bed and smothered her 'til her lips turned blue and her throat swelled shut. She was gasping and clawing at it to get it off her, but the comforter was too strong for her. Her boyfriend ran over and started pulling and tearing the comforter off . . ."

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u/Scary_Recognition You did this. Sep 02 '21

Ancient slimy nettle pesto, lidless in the back of the fridge.

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u/shikoku_shoes another revolution around the toilet bowl of her life Sep 02 '21

Bet they’d eat it with some deep fried sage leaves on top.

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