The Heat of the Kitchen: Drug and Alcohol Addiction in the Hospitality Industry
Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
I should have heeded the above warning before I gathered ingredients and spent a couple of hours struggling – in the end, unsuccessfully – to duplicate the Apple Torte with Breadcrumb Hazelnut Crust pictured in all its supposed gorgeousity on the cover of October’s issue of Bon Appetit magazine.
Fabulous Fundraiser Feast
I’ve attended plenty of fundraisers for food charities over the years and most are not to my taste.
Too many – often several hundred – well-heeled guests dressed to the nines tripping over each other to get at the food served at individual stations in a glitzy indoor venue or sometimes in the big outdoors is not my cup of tea. Their motivation is to see and be seen at an event that’s both a tax write-off and makes them feel good about visibly supporting some worthy cause.