Liver and Onions

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8. Lived in diners as a wandering carpenter in southern

Maine, NH and Vermont. The blue plate special. Many times.
Years later, in the business world in mid 80's in Florida, I recruited a guy from Atlanta who was vacationing with his parents in Naples.
Always had at least one interview while dining. Always tells.
We went to Cafe L' Europe on St. Armands Circle in Sarasota. Premier restaurant. For lunch.
He ordered the mini filet mignon and I ordered the special, liver and onions.
He immediately questioned my sanity, but I calmly replied that if this top shelf restaurant was offering liver and onions, it had to be superb.
I remember it well. It was the best I ever had.
I did hire him, but he always thought of me as a bit iconoclastic thereafter.
I learned more about him, than he did of me at that luncheon, which helped me inspire him to get things done.

Just a liver and onions story.