“When I was working in Vietnam, one of the chefs-in-training cut off all of his fingertips with a mandolin. Like, straight across, all of them gone. He was so afraid that our boss would yell at him that he tried to wear layers of gloves all day, but the blood kept seeping through them. Eventually he got thrown out of the kitchen.”—-Chef Spike Mendelsohn of D.C.’s Good Stuff Eatery and We The Pizza, dishing up his most ghastly kitchen horror story to Grub Street

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