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Emma & John Currence Sittin’ in a Kitchen

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C-H-O-P-P-I-N-G…

So it went down like this:

Emma was sick for a month with asthma/upper respiratory virus.

Leaving her allergist’s office in Oxford, MS at lunch time, Emma requests a “fancy place,”  for lunch.

I agree because a) I like to eat and b) she’s been sick for a month without complaint.

We went to City Grocery where Emma charmed her way into the heart of our server, Jennifer, and eventually into the kitchen to get her first behind the scenes look at a professional kitchen.

I wrote my weekly column about the whole shebang. (Which was eventually picked up by my friends over at HuffPo.)

Someone in my newsfeed recognized Jennifer and put the link to the post on her wall.

Jennifer sent me a really sweet email.

Jennifer’s MOM sent me a really sweet email.

Jennifer’s sister went rogue and tweets the link to James Beard Award Winning Chef and owner of City Grocery, John Currence.

John Currence tweeted back:

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I tweeted back:

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He tweeted back:

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I explain everything that has happened to Emma. She loses her mind.

 

John emailed me to set up a time for us to come back and asked what foods Emma likes and dislikes. I called her into the room and typed as she talked:

Honest to God the kid will eat anything. She loves salads and was totally peeved today that there were no healthy choices at her school Valentine party and actually told her teacher, “You’d think somebody could at least bring fruit or something!!” 
 
She says she doesn’t like tomatoes, squash or zucchini, or spicy peppers. 
 
She loves: greens, turnip greens, onions (sauteed she says) chicken, sushi (couldn’t make this stuff up, I’m just taking notes), all fruit. She says steak is her favorite meat. Her eyes are glazing over the longer she talks about this. 
She said she’s always wondered about sweetbreads. (Are you crying yet?) 
She LOVES fish. 
 
She says “I just want to feel like a real chef in a real restaurant cooking for real food for lots of people.” (Guess this is her mission statement.) “Because I’ll feel like I’m really helping them.”
 
She says, “Ask him if we can do appetizers, an entree and dessert. And tell him I like LOTS of food and really fancy food.” 

Best Valentine’s Day, EVER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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