Six Degrees of Separation by Shelley Lance
How does the human web of personal relationships connect me right up to our wonderful new president? Here’s how it goes: my husband’s first cousin’s son is Sam Kass. Sam has been working as the Obama family’s private chef in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, and Sam is going with the Obamas to the White House!! My husband has given me permission to go public with this information because it’s now all over the press including the New York Times.
I’ve only met Sam a few times, but here are a few reasons I’m head over heels about this guy:
1. He’s a really sweet young man, totally unpretentious and down to earth.
2. He’s passionate about food and interested in all kinds of issues: local and sustainable, small farms, wines and wineries, health and hunger, etc. I think he’s the perfect person to act as conduit to Obama on the food issues so many of us care deeply about.
3. He cooked on the line for awhile at Avec and Blackbird, Paul Kahan’s super-delicious joints in Chicago’s West Loop. (Avec is one of Tom Douglas’ favorite Chicago restaurants, by the way.)
4. Sam also worked at Jane Addams Hull House Museum, an historic Chicago institution, where he cooked soup for a soup-kitchen-food-issues-think-tank called “Re-thinking Soup.”
5. And don’t forget- HE’S MY COUSIN! (by marriage, anyway) Wow!!
Stay tuned. If I can find out more about what Sam’s up to, I will keep you posted.
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