Recent News Story:
Middle aged waitress in a small town strikes up a
conversation with a customer. Shares that she has 8 years of art education and
some day she would love to go to Italy.
Customer leaves her $1,000 tip to help her finances
the trip.
From an episode of the reality cooking show Chopped:
(Everyday Chefs from all over compete for $10,000
by cooking meals made out of bizarre foods, in an insane time frame.)
Warning, tangential thought. Why, you may ask,
would l ever be interested in a cooking show considering I my refusal to engage
in such activities? Because, even though I don’t participate in the production
of food, I have been known to engage in the consumption of food. I also think it takes some creativity to make
an edible main course out of jelly beans, seltzer water and canned sardines in
20 minutes.
So, there are two chefs left. One is this very sweet, young guy who as a kid
made some huge detrimental life decision. He turned his life around and is the
chef for a church camp.
The other chef is a dynamic, friendly French chef
who came to America to start a restaurant. She desperately wants to take a trip back to
France to see her grandma.
All of you who are rolling their eyes at such a saccharine
story, I say to you, don’t judge. I’m one of the crabbiest, most jaded, pessimistic
people I know, and considering my peer group is comprised of middle aged social
workers, that is saying quite a bit.
During the previous round, the French chef was running to the sink with a pot of boiling potatoes. She slips and the pot spills all over her leg. Like a trouper she muscles through the round and then is seen by the paramedics. She has first and second degree burns but wants to finish.
Last scene, the church camp chef wins. The French chef very graciously, thanks everyone, shakes hands as is ready to walk off. The winner says, “Wait a minute. I didn’t expect to win. I really didn’t. I’ll make sure you get to France.”
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The French chef is stunned. Then she starts to cry.
Because I’m in the field I’m in and because of what
I’ve seen, I am an absolute sucker for an everyday hero. They just don’t come
along very often.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Heartwarming/Chopped
http://www.midweek.com/lance-nitahara/
https://heartland.ncfgiving.com/1305
CHOPPED S14 • E8
#cook #gratitude #kindness
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