Update:  many new pics in Gallery.  Four animated GIF files were made recently, with freeware programs.  My independent learning continues, in no apparent direction.

Hi, yeah...this page was launched and is maintained by me.  How I've survived all these years in near ignorance has me baffled.  Probably stumps you, too, eh?

But here we are.  What's you're excuse for living so long, eh?

Anyhow, since you've come looking to see what I've managed with my life, check out my original (and specially selected other) photos.  Most of the pics have been electronically trimmed and shouldn't take too long to load.

I'm presently hoping to effect a career change.  The kitchen's gotten too hot for me, the customers sometimes are frustratingly unreasonable, and the service environment has become agonizingly standardized.

I still enjoy cooking for normal, healthy people with good appetites.  Sadly, many of those folks choose to eat at home, rather than have to deal with the sour dispositions of today's average diner customer.  For years, I passed around the Truth as I know it about salt, fats and proper nutrition, and a few managed to get what I say. 

But today, it's the chemically-altered customer who rules.  I've gotten sucked into some uncomfortable arguments before finding out the customer is a Prozac user, or otherwise talking from behind the side effects of whatever medicine they're taking.  I've decided to just do the job with a smile.  No more Voice of Experience out of me.  The cook no longer will recommend, unless he has in hand a signed disclaimer.  It's not worth the headache of "But, you said..."

It's your money.  Here's the menu.  You tell me what you want.  That's how it's supposed to be.  I'm not your mama. 

Write me if you're so moved.

--D 

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