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I'm Frances Lamb, and this is The Splendid Table from APM, the show for curious cooks and eaters.

Thank you. table from APM, the show for curious cooks and eaters. Okay, so it's early 2003.

I'm a cook, just a lowly intern at this terrific restaurant in Portland, Oregon.

And he's a joke that I moved there because I wanted to run into Slater Kinney,

the greatest rock and roll band of my generation,

and somehow convinced them to let me be their houseboy.

And, you know, all through my time there, there are all these close calls, like the time I saw

Corinne Tucker getting a coffee.

Or, you know, the time I heard from a friend of a friend that they were there singing karaoke

at the same karaoke bar I was in the night before.

You know, Portland can have this kind of small town vibe,

and it can put people that you admire from afar tantalizingly close.

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