Cooking as Fast as I Can by Cat Cora

Author:Cat Cora
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

Hannah and I, and our two Greyhound rescue dogs, barely survived the historic blizzard of 1996, months after we arrived in Old Chatham. We’d never witnessed such a thing, fifty-mile-an-hour wind gusts, barns and grocery store roofs collapsing under the weight of many feet of snow, people stranded in buses for hours and days, the government shuttered for a week. A year later, on the first day the temperature dipped below zero, we looked at each other over our morning coffee and agreed: this is completely insane. We could see our breath in the bathroom of our little rental house, and the dogs shivered in their sleep, even on top of the heat vent. Every day I looked forward to the infernal heat of the kitchen, something that as a Mississippi girl born and raised I could tolerate with relative ease.

Then, sometime in early 1997, the offer I’d been waiting for finally landed. Restaurants fail in record numbers every year. In the time it’s taken you to read this chapter, I’m sure another one has shut its doors forever. The Sheepherding Co. was exceptional. All the national coverage had the culinary world buzzing, and somewhere in the buzz, my name had come to the attention of Donna and Giovanni Scala, owners of Bistro Don Giovanni in California’s Napa Valley.

Donna Scala called and offered me the position of chef de cuisine, or executive chef. I weighed their offer for a good ninety seconds before saying hell yes.

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