“The Weeds.

It’s an expression for line cooks by line cooks, but it is also something much larger. A euphemism. It’s an in-the-moment, during service expression.

But it can also refer to your whole career.”

One of the most brilliant things I’ve read on the energy of a kitchen, for good and for bad. [stolen from Michael Ruhlman]

And that bit above . . . A life in the weeds may well be just a better expression of what I was flailing for below.