The Kitchen Counter Cooking School (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
—Andy Warhol, pop art icon Standing on the stage delivering the graduation speech at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris is not the optimal time for an existential crisis. Yet there I stood in my simple black dress, speech in hand, dwarfed by the vaulted gilded ceilings of the opulent ballroom in Le Club du Cercle just off the Champs-Élysées. Two years earlier, I had awaited my diploma sitting right where this year’s graduates were now. The school knew that I would be in Paris to lead a culinary tour and asked if I would speak. I’d said yes, flattered, before thinking the whole thing through. The applause at my introduction drifted away during the eternity it took to walk to the podium. I silently surveyed the rows of the immaculately dressed audience. In the front sat two of the many young Japanese women in full celebration kimonos, their small hands carefully folded in their laps. Behind me, a dozen instructor chefs in tall toques spanned the width of the stage in a single row, waiting.
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