Nephi Craig
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419 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
Nephi Craig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, addiction strips away everything slowly.
It's this terrible...
terrible affliction that just causes you to devalue yourself and all of your belongings.
And as my life stripped away of people, places, and things like places to live, finances, resources, the last things that I held on to were always my chef knives because I knew if I had my chef knives, I could find a job anywhere in the world, literally, because by that time I had already traveled around the world.
And so I held on to those to the very, very, very end.
And around 2011, those were some of the last things I was willing to pawn off or sell on the street for money.
These knives were special because I had got them on a trip to Japan in 2007, where I prepared a seven-course tasting menu of Western Apache cooking and cuisine at the Imperial Hotel of Osaka.
So I cherished these knives because they were like samurai swords.
They were made by a knife maker whose ancestors made samurai swords and were samurai.
And I brought them back to the States with me.
And I still have one of them with me, but I sold those other ones.
And it was terrible because, you know, it's just the name of the game.
Things that you find very valuable, you were willing to sell off just to get high again.
And that's the way that that was for me.
The restaurant that I got the opportunity to work at was called Mary Elaine's at the Phoenician in Phoenix, Arizona.
It was a temple of gastronomy on the West Coast.
And from my first day in culinary school, my favorite instructor would talk about that place because he had worked there as a line cook.
And he used to tell all of his students that if you're going to try to work anywhere in Phoenix, work with the best and try to get into Mary Elaine's at the Phoenician.
And that stuck with me.
So every year from 98, 99, 2000, 2001, I would apply two to three to even four times a year there at the Phoenician.
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