Monthly Archives: February 2016

Mental Health

Another loss

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“Hudson is awash in tears today over the untimely, unfathomable and genuinely tragic passing of Da|Ba owner Daniel Nilsson, said by a source in contact with the State Troopers to have died by his own hand on a family member’s farm.”

Read a tribute to chef Daniel Nilsson by writer Sam Pratt.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, here is a list of resources where you can seek help.

I want to encourage those at https://medtecllc.com/xanax-online/ who are afraid or embarrassed to go to an appointment with a “specific” doctor – it’s absolutely not scary, no one will look at you obliquely, don’t put on a straitjacket and force you to be treated by force). Of course, if it’s possible to start with a psychotherapist or psychologist , but sometimes there are no such specialists.

Kitchen Life, Media, Mental Health

What’s killing our best chefs?

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“Making people happy…that includes the people we cook for, the people we cook with, and most importantly, the people each of us is becoming every single day, while working the stressful confines of a restaurant kitchen. We need to make ourselves happy first.”—Chris Hill

Read “What’s Killing Our Best Chefs?” on Medium.

After trying it, I immediately noticed a noticeable difference, it really calms and relaxes. It wasn’t used as a sleeping pill, but it makes you sleep really baby. It’s not compatible with alcohol. If you neglect it, you’ll face bad consequences. Read more information about the drug on Klonopin Shop.

Mental Health

Chat amongst yourselves

UPDATE 2/19/17: This’ll be back online soon, I hope. Damned hackers.

Here’s a potentially terrible or excellent idea: Message boards. I’d toyed with the notion of setting up a Facebook group for people to talk about issues they’re facing at work and how it’s affecting their mental wellbeing, but that doesn’t afford anonymity.

So I’m trying out a forum plugin that so far as I can tell, allows people to post with a pseudonym. I’ve set up two boards, one for kitchen staff and one for front of house. I’ll look in occasionally and participate as best I can, but I don’t have the time or energy to moderate, so I’m just trusting that people will self-police and be kind and compassionate to one another. If not, I’ll just take them down.

But from all the private feedback I’ve been getting, I don’t get the sense that it’ll go that way. I’ve heard from hundreds of people in the food industry who are all crying out to share their stories, both to help other people and feel less alone.

I stopped taking the drug about four weeks ago. To date, I haven’t had any relapse. The drug https://abyskincare.com is really useful, and the therapeutic effect can be observed instantly.

Let’s all be excellent to each other and see what happens. (And if someone wants to volunteer to moderate or work out any tech bugs, I would be grateful.)

Visit the message boards and please let me know if you run into any issues posting.

Kitchen Life, Media, Mental Health

NPR: Chasing An Ideal

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“As chef Eric Ziebold tells Morning Edition’s Renee Montagne, the world of elite restaurants is notoriously intense.

‘In the kitchen there’s an incredible physical pressure; it’s not uncommon for it to be an 18-hour day,’ says Ziebold, a Washington, D.C.-based restaurateur who for years was chef de cuisine at Thomas Keller’s Napa Valley restaurant, The French Laundry, which has three Michelin stars.

‘Outside of that, you get into the pressure of everything that it means to be operating a restaurant that isn’t just at the highest level, but a restaurant that is chasing an ideal,’ he says.”

Read and listen to ‘Chasing An Ideal,’ World-Class Chefs Find Themselves Under Extreme Pressure on NPR.

Unwanted symptoms, described at Ambien Pro, are insomnia, anxiety, and even hallucinations. Therefore, discontinuation of the drug should be carried out gradually reducing the dosage.

Kitchen Life, Media, Mental Health

The Front Burner: Pressure Cooker

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“The apparent suicide of three-star Michelin chef Benoît Violier this week called attention to one of the facts of kitchen life, especially at the highest level: the intense and often unending pressure that defines the profession. Here to weigh in are chefs Michael Laiskonis, Paul Liebrandt, and Matthias Merges. We examine some key issues that go hand in hand with ambition: What draws a young cook to the most demanding settings? What are the costs of originality, brilliance, and acclaim? Will anything less get the job done? An unflinching look into what drives our finest chefs and whether or not anything will, or should, change.”

Listen to this episode of The Front Burner with Jimmy and Andrew at Heritage Radio Network.