"See the thing about tempeh is, people complain sometimes that it's bitter. The key is to boil it for 8 to 10 minutes before you do anything with it." Randy was standing in the corner of the small kitchen, breaking in the new kid. Randy was only 24, but to the teenage kid, he might as well have been 50. Randy had been a chef at the co-op for 3 years, and he knew the menu well enough to come in half-baked and execute flawlessly. He looked like a throwback to the Van Halen days. Acid washed jeans, Jordans, a white t-shirt with an airbrushed lowrider on the front and "panty dropper" artfully scripted on the back. A skull earring and an MTV trucker cap that partially covered his mullet rounded out the ensemble.
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