there's a big crock of softened butter on almost every cook's station, and it's getting a heavy workout. Margarine? That's not food.

To have a tough-as-nails, foul-mouthed, trash-talking female line cook on your team can be a true joy —

Marijuana or mota or chronic

with them or finding them entertaining. This business grows assholes: it's our principal export. I'm an asshole. You should probably be an asshole too.

Chilean sea bass? Trendy. Expensive. More than likely frozen.

Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

compunction

dissent

Those paper toques are coffee filters or clown hats,