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After too many years cooking food for rich people in the Hamptons,

I didn't quite understand what my purpose was.

This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. For 16 years, Debbie has been talking with creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

On this episode, Debbie talks with Gabriel Hamilton

about her career as a cook and as a late-blooming writer.

I said to myself, like, you're not a writer, writer lady so let's get with the program here

you're just not a writer you're a cook so get with it.

Here's Debbie

Back in PPT pre-Pandemic times, Gabriel Hamilton founded and ran Prune, a bistro in New York's

East Village. But in March, after 20 years in business, she had to lay everyone off and

close the doors. Indeed, the shutdown has been such a catastrophe for restaurants that one

wonders how many of them will be left when

it's safe to socialize again. But fortunately for us, Gabriel Hamilton's talents

...