Bliss and Vinegar: A Culinary Memoir
9 min readJan 22, 2019
Chapter 1: Things Can Only Get Better From Here
On the bleakest day of the bleakest year in the bleakest part of town, I arrived at the Commissary Kitchen, a nondescript building in a run-down warehouse district on the wrong side of the railroad tracks. Career-wise, it was debatable whether this was a vertical or lateral move, or perhaps a downward spiral. It certainly did not feel like a promotion.
