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By Ben Shewry
Published 2012
Cheffing has historically been a haven for the discarded and disenfranchised of society, and the hospitality industry has typically allowed all these types of characters a place to be themselves, to have a sense of worth — even in the lowliest of restaurants. Restaurant X was my first experience of the pirate-like crew of a kitchen. The restaurant attracted a bunch of lost souls from extremely different backgrounds, but we ended up as a family in the small confined space of the kitchen, surviving the conditions and pressures of service that would make the average person buckle at the knees. It’s what bound us together. I’m sure every chef has their own Restaurant X.
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