I’d like to speak to the manager!!!

Tonight I was standing at the kitchen window, checking in to make sure all was well.

A server approached the window and asked the chef a question, that I could not hear.

He answered, and I could hear his answer.

So I asked the server and the chef what was going on…it’s kind of my job to know these things.

Table 37 had asked if we used LARD in our empanadas. Chef had told the server no. We do not. She had reappeared, with his new cookbook in hand to show him that for the empanadas in the cookbook one of the ingredients was lard.

He laughed out loud at this.

Then explained that the recipe in the book was NOT the recipe we followed in the restaurant.

He further explained that the recipe in his cookbook was his father’s family’s recipe, that he’d grown up with. They cooked their empanadas in Argentina in lard.

Here in America (emphasis on America) we bake them, with olive oil. He assured her there was no lard used for empanadas.

As she walked away, I told her that I would deliver the message to Table 37. They found it very funny that we used a different recipe, but explained that they don’t eat lard and so they were worried. I shared that the chef was impressed that they’d looked it up in the cookbook.

They had a great meal.

I checked in with them on their way out and they’d had a great time.