Mental Health, Survey

A little victory

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Hi all,

I’m still in the throes of book edits, but I wanted to share a nice development. I’m working with The Heirloom Foundation to use the data collected from my mental health survey to create a document that we can publish and use as proof of the ongoing crisis in the food industry.

Since I didn’t get board clearance before posting the survey (honestly, I just wanted to see if people had some things they wanted to talk about), the results can’t technically be considered as “board approved.” BUT! The raw data has made it through an independent review board and can officially be analyzed by a psychologist for publication. Which is huge. Which will allow us to demonstrate the scope of the problem. Which will make a difference.

Meanwhile, I’m crawling back into my writing hole, and I leave you with this love letter to the service industry, written by one of the biggest-hearted humans I know, Carla Rzeszewski.

“And if this invisible communication of industry folk seems a bit romantic to you, allow me to illustrate a more hard-wired lesson learned while working the floor. One of the richest things you can learn is the ability to be ‘in the weeds’ and more importantly, to get yourself out. (Being in the weeds essentially means that you are in the shits in the middle of service; it can feel like the ship is sinking around you, and it’s somehow up to you to get everyone back to shore.) And while being in the weeds can potentially be a nightly occurrence if you’re working at a busy restaurant, it’s a great opportunity to learn how to multi-task, remaining buddha-calm while attempting to make your bartender, manager, tables and chef happy. It is a wonderfully sadistic form of mediation.”

Read the rest of “A Love Letter To The Industry” at Medium.

Mental Health

A note and a milestone

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Hi, all! I wanted to pop my head in and note that I’m posting a little less right now because I’m on book deadline, but I’m still paying very close attention to the correspondence and survey responses coming in and I’ll be in touch after the end of February.

But speaking of the survey: Over 1000 chefs, managers, servers, bartenders and other people in food service have responded, and some pretty clear patterns have emerged. I’ve shared the results (fear not—with no identifying information) with the good people of The Heirloom Foundation, who are working with a psychologist to analyze the results so we’ll have clear, incontrovertible evidence of the struggles the industry faces, and where efforts should be focused.

I’m deeply grateful for everyone who has poured out their hearts. It will all add up to something.

In the meantime, message boards are live if you feel like venting to other people in the industry.

Kitchen Life, Media, Mental Health

Good Food: Let’s hear it for the chefs

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Hours before the release of the 2016 Michelin Guide, 44-year-old chef Benoit Violier took his own life. Violier’s restaurant Restaurant, de l’Hôtel de Ville, in Switzerland got three Michelin stars in 2015 and ranked at the top of France’s La Liste guide.

Violier’s tragic death has reignited the conversation about stresses that chefs face in kitchens. Kat Kinsman writes about food and mental illness and is an editor at the website Tasting Table. Kinsman talks to Good Food about her new project Chefs with Issues, an online repository collecting first-hand accounts about working in restaurants.

Hear the story at KCRW’s Good Food.

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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.

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