Appreciation post: the old prep cook on Grand Ave who showed me how to hold a knife without squeezing the life out of it

Jenny Sullivan · 2026-09-23T11:50:02.952327+00:00

She watched me dice onions for 20 minutes at my first real kitchen job in Chicago and just said 'you're gripping it like a hammer, it's a pencil, not a hammer.' Twenty years later I still hear her voice every time I see a new hire death-gripping a chef's knife.

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