Charlie Trotter.........R.I.P.
I dined at Charlie Trotter's eponymous restaurant in Chicago just one single time. It was one of the better meals of my life, easily in the top ten.
The occasion was one of major culture shock for my date, a stripper from Arnie's Idle Hour in Harvey,IL (south Chicago). Arnie's was a major culture shock for me. It was the first time in my entire life that I had even had a conversation with a black lady let alone attempt the intimate physical acts that have made Arnie's VIP so notorious. I was a pathetic failure in Arnie's VIP but I enjoyed so much the conversation that I had with one of the dancers. I invited that dancer to have dinner with me after her shift. She accepted my invitation but the poor lady was horribly most uncomfortable in the restaurant, a dining experience that was totally outside of anything familiar to her.
What an idiot I was! The lady would have been much more pleased with a barrel of Juice's crispy KFC with all the 'fixins'.
The occasion was one of major culture shock for my date, a stripper from Arnie's Idle Hour in Harvey,IL (south Chicago). Arnie's was a major culture shock for me. It was the first time in my entire life that I had even had a conversation with a black lady let alone attempt the intimate physical acts that have made Arnie's VIP so notorious. I was a pathetic failure in Arnie's VIP but I enjoyed so much the conversation that I had with one of the dancers. I invited that dancer to have dinner with me after her shift. She accepted my invitation but the poor lady was horribly most uncomfortable in the restaurant, a dining experience that was totally outside of anything familiar to her.
What an idiot I was! The lady would have been much more pleased with a barrel of Juice's crispy KFC with all the 'fixins'.
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When I noticed his obituary in the news the other day, I almost posted it, but wasn't sure how nationally known he was. His restaurant certainly was a Chicago icon.
He was still a relatively young man, yet had a cooking show years ago. He didn't seem to have the panache of today's celebrity TV chefs, so he really focused on technique.
RIP
You mean he didn't yell and scream at his co-workers?
She still talks of the wonderful food we ate and still laughs about spending the night in our "cell".
Hate to hear he's dead.
My dinner in his restaurant was the multi-course chef's menu - a truly excellent dining experience. I will now be seeking out Charlie Trotter's cookbooks for purchase.
One article I read said he was self-taught and did not attend culinary school. But another article said he did attend a school in California.
farmerart said that Arnies was the first time he had conversed with a black woman. he did NOT say he took a black dancer to dinner. that was YOUR bigoted assumption. his point about dinner at Charlie Trotter's vs KFC was that the stripper, of unknown ethnicity you dumb fuck, was uncomfortably out of her element you dumb fuck.
despite being Canadian which makes him entirely irrelevant, farmerart is no racist and does not deserve to be smeared by a bigoted left wing POS like you.
Doug-what is the clinical psychological term for a male that projects female attributes so strongly that it causes confusion
I believe it's "fag".
I guess that's one of the nicer things said about women on this site.