This is one of the best and deepest so far, as someone in the millennial cusp that feels everything you wrote about, Brendan. One thing I'm curious about though, and having not watched The Bear since season 1, is the kitchen culture and mindset specifically.
I'm actually reading Kitchen Confidential right now, and it seems like Anthony Bourdain is in equal parts retelling and romanticizing the culture he grew up in as a chef. All the problems he himself falls into as he gets older are there and festering from the time he gets into the CIA as a young kid.
It makes me wonder how much this self serving grind til you die mindset existed before becoming the mainstream millennial zeitgeist, and how much it is something that was permeated throughout our culture by the media we consumed. Maybe Anthony Bourdain could've become a figure of change in the culinary world, but he was a bit too self-destructive. Is our generation the same way? Great read.
This is one of the best and deepest so far, as someone in the millennial cusp that feels everything you wrote about, Brendan. One thing I'm curious about though, and having not watched The Bear since season 1, is the kitchen culture and mindset specifically.
I'm actually reading Kitchen Confidential right now, and it seems like Anthony Bourdain is in equal parts retelling and romanticizing the culture he grew up in as a chef. All the problems he himself falls into as he gets older are there and festering from the time he gets into the CIA as a young kid.
It makes me wonder how much this self serving grind til you die mindset existed before becoming the mainstream millennial zeitgeist, and how much it is something that was permeated throughout our culture by the media we consumed. Maybe Anthony Bourdain could've become a figure of change in the culinary world, but he was a bit too self-destructive. Is our generation the same way? Great read.