The Menu (2022)

Adam Aalderks: Jeremy

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• Chef Slowik : Ladies and gentlemen, please meet sous-chef Jeremy Louden. Jeremy created the next dish. It's called The Mess. Originally from Sparks, Nevada, Jeremy studied at the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park. Jeremy's goal, as he wrote in a heartfelt letter, was to work for me here at Hawthorn. Isn't that right, Jeremy?

  Jeremy : Yes, Chef.

  Chef Slowik : Jeremy is talented. He's good. He's very good. But he's not great. He'll never be great. He desperately wants my prestige, my job, my talent. He aspires to greatness, but he'll never achieve it. Correct, Jeremy?

  Jeremy : Yes, Chef.

  Chef Slowik : Like me at his age, Jeremy has forsaken everything to achieve his goals. Like mine, his life is pressure. Pressure to put out the best food in the world. And even when all goes right, and the food is perfect, and the customers are happy, and the critics are, too, there is no way to avoid the mess. The mess you make of your life, of your body, of your sanity, by giving everything you have to pleasing people you will never know. Jeremy... do you like this life? This life that you dreamed about?

  Jeremy : No, Chef.

  Chef Slowik : Mmm-hmm. And do you want my life? Not my position, nor my talent. My life.

  Jeremy : No, Chef.

  Chef Slowik : Ladies and gentlemen, your fourth course, sous-chef Jeremy's The Mess.

• Tyler : Do you make that with a Pacojet?

  Jeremy : Exactly right, sir.

  Tyler : Mmm. You know, a Pacojet can produce a powderized, uh, snow-like texture.

  Margot : Cool.

  Tyler : Yeah. I have one.

  Jeremy : You really know your stuff, Mr. Ledford.

  Tyler : You know my name?

  Jeremy : Oh, we like to know everyone who dines with us.