Correspondence

voice ✦ text ✦ in-person

It's good to hear. I'll be helping with lunch prep for at least a little while; that won't disrupt you?

I will do my best not to call down the Dread Powers upon us as we chop onions.

[ said so very dryly. ]

Oh, thank God. [Exaggerating his relief] My real fear is a fallen soufflé.

I have known of chefs whose deepest fears were not all that far from that.

[ is it a joke? is he making a joke? ]

That and a sink full of dirty dishes?

Anything might lurk in such a sink.