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From the How Did I Miss This? Department
I’ve been a fan of Anthony Bourdain since his television debut, and have paid good money to sit in the same room while he mouths off about the Food Network while overtly running afoul of New York City’s anti-smoking laws. I’ll read anything he publishes and look forward to his next book, coming out on June 8.
Andrew Zimmern also holds a tiny little spot in my heart. Many years ago, I walked into Minneapolis’s now defunct Cafe Un Deux Trois, an outpost of the NYC resto, and asked for a job. Two years later, I landed a position as a lowly server, ferrying steak frites and omelettes from Zimmern’s kitchen to the art deco dining room of the Foshay Tower. Where I really loved to be was behind those kitchen doors, where Zimmern held court with a no-slackers-allowed attitude and a foul mouth that made midwesterners cringe. He called me “Sarah,” not because that’s my name but because he once spent a semester at my alma mater (and probably because he couldn’t recall my name). I’ll confess that I’ve only seen AZ’s tv show once – we don’t have a tv, and the one time I did watch I was sufficiently squicked out by cheese maggots. But I’ll never forget the way he ran a kitchen: swiftly, concisely, proudly, and with the occasional and well-placed outburst.
So how did I miss Bourdain and Zimmern together, practically in my backyard, three years ago?
