Get Outta My Kitchen, Gramps
It's probably a dream of many Serious Eaters out there—leaving the cubicle for the professional kitchen. But before you ditch the TPS Reports and smash the printer, one thing: Are you too old to stand the heat?
The food blog Grub Street fielded just that question from a 45-year-old reader last week. This week, a Seattle chef answers: "I don’t want you if you’re going to complain that your knees hurt, your feet hurt from the concrete floor, that you can’t move fast enough, can’t hear orders called. That you can’t stand to listen to the Mexican death metal that the dishwashers play or the gangsta rap the prep cooks listen to...."
Ouch.
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