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Peace Meal Supper Club™ #8: Cacao

Published February 24, 2015 by Kevin

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #8: Cacao is about taking chances and trying to reconcile the expansive outcomes. It’s an engaging culinary challenge: take an ingredient…

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Four Freedoms, and Publix

Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Four Freedoms, and Publix

Published October 14, 2013 by Kevin

(This essay has now been published by Civil Eats, available here: A Chef Speaks Out on Farm Labor) On October 16, the Coalition of Immokalee…

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Crafting Non-attachment

Published May 22, 2013 by Kevin

The restaurant business is largely about ego. As a venue or chef builds an identity, egos become inordinately inflated. The maintenance of an ego requires…

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Effecting a Coup

Published March 22, 2013 by Kevin

In the past few weeks, I effected—and was affected by—a coup d’etat. I was both the usurper and the usurped. I survived victoriously. I want…

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Dylan & Dinner

Published November 20, 2010 by Kevin

Earlier this week, a friend asked me about the Bob Dylan concert I’d just attended. Being a non-US citizen, she knew of Dylan primarily as…

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Peace Meal Supper Club™ #8: Cacao

Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Four Freedoms, and Publix

Crafting Non-attachment

Effecting a Coup

Dylan & Dinner