"Those prep boxes can be a lifesaver for some people," Phil said with a nod. "Keep thinking I should try one, just to see what it gives me to work with. My daughter and I both enjoy cooking, and we both do it at every opportunity, but I'm always open to new things."
There were times he thought that he might very well have wanted to be a chef if his life had gone down a wildly different path. Alas, that hadn't happened. He had, however, been given something like a second chance at that -- in the midst of what was, in and of itself, already a second chance -- and while he wasn't a chef, he had gone down a quite different career path in Madison Valley.
There were days he almost couldn't remember how he'd even started out.