If You Can't Take The Heat......

I think it was President Harry Truman that made this famous: If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen....well guess what? I'm STILL HERE!

Oh goodness, Newport has been so hot the past week, especially Tuesday! The temperature was 102 degrees! Oh but wait, in the kitchen, it was easily 120, maybe 125! We were all drinking water by the quart-full, asking the food runners to fill us up every 30 minutes with nice cold icey water. Sure was refreshing. But we found the best secret was to soak a towel in cold water and then store it in the refrigerated drawers where we keep our food for service, that was its nice and cold to wrap around the neck or face. You don't know hot until you are standing behind a grill in long pants and a long sleeve jacket. And then of course there is the walk-in refrigerator which is a nice cold room that can cool the body temp down for a few seconds...

Yes mom, I am drinking lots of water, thanks for asking.