{"id":405,"date":"2007-07-31T17:57:44","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T01:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/31\/good-choice-for-your-last-meal\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:13:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:13:20","slug":"good-choice-for-your-last-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/31\/good-choice-for-your-last-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"good cook for your last meal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just read this tidbit from the excellent Exploration of Portland Food and Drink<\/a> blog (posted by “food dude”) – whatever you read in Anthony Bourdain’s tomes of kitchen debauchery are likely more than accurate and even more likely understated:<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to name where they worked, but in the past week a cook was hauled off the line in the middle of dinner for kiddie porn, and a Chef de Cuisine from another restaurant was hauled off to jail mid-shift, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153for something between 4 and 14 months\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just read this tidbit from the excellent Exploration of Portland Food and Drink blog (posted by “food dude”) – whatever you read in Anthony Bourdain’s tomes of kitchen debauchery are likely more than accurate and even more likely understated: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to name where they worked, but in the past week a cook was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[3662,3660],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-orchestra-world","tag-portland","tag-viola"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-6x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14140,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/20\/the-learning-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":405,"position":0},"title":"the learning continues","author":"Charles Noble","date":"June 20, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"After this past week's rehearsing and performing at the Portland Piano International Festival, I learned, or re-learned several things. 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