
I’ll start with this: I genuinely love what I do. On any given day I get to eat and drink and talk about food with people who have given their lives to it. Some of the best conversations I’ve had in this city happened over a plate of something extraordinary, and most of what was said stayed in the room. That’s the deal, and it’s one I have never once regretted.
So when chef Brian Luscher called and invited me to lunch at The Grape, I said yes before he finished the sentence. I knew what kind of afternoon it would be.
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