You mean Payne Stewart? The golfer who passed away in the plane crash in 1999.
That was a big deal to him to include the family because, if you’ve ever gone through something like that, you know it’s not just the patient who suffers and loses their freedom, it’s everyone they are close to. It was very similar to make a wish - terminally sick patients apply and benefit from an all expenses paid vacation with their family or group of caregivers.
It was so impactful to him that he came home and decided to start a non profit organization. A family friend put us up in their beach house and gave us some money to have a good time there. We hadn’t had a family vacation for a long time. We went on a vacation soon after that, and because we were broke from medical bills and four years of battling cancer as a family, this was a HUGE deal. I told him it didn’t matter what it was but a vision for the future that he would fight for was important and encouraged him to find something to give his life too. Somewhere around his 22nd birthday he and I were talking about having something worth living for. But he was 5’8, all heart, he was just like Rudy in that Notre Dame football movie. Back then his only wish was to be an NFL player.
He was given three to six months to live. Not make a wish - but my brother got terminal brain cancer when he was 18. Side note( I have re worked and re ran the dish as a special a few times in memory of that day, it was that impactful) But it was a fulfilling experience for sure. I probably would not have been as bright and vibrant with the “lessons” had I of known. But I realized after it was for the best. In the moment I was a little upset because nobody told me.
It was only at the end when the father came up to me In tears that I realized what was goin on. We were having fun, I then made a purée out of the cornbread let her plate up the dish a few different ways to show how you can play with ingredients and height to showcase differnt parts of the dish. So I showed her the ropes, we made all kinds of stuff, that were on the surface kind of random, candied bacon, cornbread, prosciutto wrapped Boursin cheese stuffed asparagus, a sweet tea brined pork chop, a sorel garnish salad type thing and some other Cool garnishes. I babysat my little cousins at the time So I was actually pretty used to entertaining 10 year old girls at the time. I was a chef at a fancy steakhouse in Jacksonville Florida, one day my proprietor came To me and said this is Stacy the new girl she’ll be training with you, I look over and it’s this adorable little girl in bright pink chef coat.
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