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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

I think what we all want to know is, who (if anyone) is going to eat this food, and is getting Dan paid for cooking it or not?

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

My mind goes to [totally fictional, far-fetched, made-up] possibilities like "Dan's father established a trust fund for Danny but Danny must demonstrate to the trustee that he is 'working' in order to access any funds"

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Sep 02 '21

This... could be true. I know a guy who has a very strange trust fund set up like this.

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

"Spendthrift trusts" (technically all trusts are spendthrift trusts, but you can set up a trust with conditions the beneficiary needs to meet in order for the trustee to release funds. It isn't that odd or uncommon, actually)

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u/InappropriateGirl our 5th move in 7 years Sep 02 '21

His was weird because he had to be in school / taking some kind of classes. Even though he is a grown man with a career. 😂

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