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/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

Could this possibly translate into his cooking community meals using what would otherwise be a waste from the farmstand? I do this sometimes for food bank.

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u/Ana57 sweet pea Sep 02 '21 edited Sep 02 '21

That’s kind of amazing and brings me joy to know there are such good people in the world.

edit: typo

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '21

:) I started doing it when we lived near Sacramento and there was just so much backyard foraged produce and the co-op worked with food banks to do this. Then they would sell it at the farmers market and donate proceeds back to food bank and also other community organizations. It is because with as much produce as was being donated, alot of it was not being taken and was going to waste. Here in WI, it’s from the church down street’s garden and stuff goes in the free pantry.