Life on Peace and Plenty Farm
In the last couple of weeks, the topic of food service, and my long history with it has come up and it's got me thinking about my long, windy path that lead to Peace and Plenty Farm. I waitressed in San Francisco for decades, yes decades. Some of those years, I was doing plenty of other things: going to school, raising my daughter, launching my catering business, but a good handful of those years, I was just waiting (borrowing from Debra Ginsberg's book of the same title for that zinger).
It's almost 9 and we haven't had dinner yet. We do this often, work till after dark, then stumble in to the kitchen, dirty and tired and so very hungry. To get everything done that we feel we need to...
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