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I set up a double boiler, had a pot ready to poach eggs, and started barking friendly sous chef orders across the kitchen.

“As a female sushi chef, you don’t have many opportunities to be an executive chef or a sous chef. It’s more of a challenge to break in.”

I dreamed of preparing sea urchins with a “sous chef” boyfriend; he didn’t cook, and his palate was from the kids menu.

Incidentally, Kirkconnell’s most recent Instagram post is from early December and is a birthday tribute to James, whom she described as her best friend, teammate and sous chef.

Their place in the Village would cost $7,500 a month in rent nowadays— hard to afford on Rachel's salary as a café waitress and Monica's job as a sous chef.