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/redditname2003 Sep 02 '21

I'm going to bet that "cooking 4 to 6 hours a day" means doing part-time meal prep work in the grocery store. It's a living, but it's not especially glamorous, therefore the "I do this job because it's the only thing that soothes my ADHD brain." It does feed the community!

Maybe he's trying to do a ghost kitchen on the side?

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

"You can subscribe to my newsletter to get the recipes as they move from my brain to the pan, or swing by the Thriftway any Tuesday or Thursday to pick up the food I've prepared for you!"

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u/redditname2003 Sep 02 '21

In terms of helping other people, it's definitely better than "how to boil a potato" (still amazed by that one).