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On Sunday, November 12, 2006, a few days of involvement on my part (and many, many additional days involvement on the part of Chef Neace and other employees of Cincinnati State) came to fruition with the serving of a recreation of the last dinner served…
Tonight’s meal was just scraps of items left from the recreation at Cincinnati State of the last meal aboard the Titanic. I was the sous chef for this party, and it went pretty well. Dinner was leftover chicken, fish, beef, and vegetables.
 For the first time in about 6 weeks, I worked at Jean-Robert at Pigall’s. For the first time in far too long, I stayed all the way through service instead of doing prep and leaving, which has been the style for some time owing…
A nice, quiet evening at home. Wendy & I watched some television (my poor Personal Video Recorder (PVR) is staggering from the strain of all we’ve recorded on it!). We ordered in from LaRosa’s for dinner — I had a pizza, Wendy had a sandwich,…
Another very quiet night at home for us, cuddled together (with dogs and cats laying on and around us) watching television. This is our normal post-busy-time activity — intense doing-nothing-ness that will occupy us for a bit, then we’ll get bored and get involved with…
After working at my day job, I headed down to Jean-Robert at Pigall’s to work a party with Raymond in the third-floor kitchen. The atmosphere in the main kitchen was very different than when I work on Saturdays. Saturday nights are very busy at the…
Since I worked at Jean-Robert at Pigall’s this evening, my dinner was the remains of ‘family meal’ — barbecued chicken. It was a simple meal because the official mealtime was over, but I was grateful for the food since I was hungry!