Nephi Craig

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419 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And we would pull out pallets and pallets of frozen ingredients, which they were frozen, but it was still like one year, six months, three months expired.

So temperature control was really a big thing.

So it had to get above certain temperatures for X amount of time.

But again, it's jail.

So like, you know, I don't think the staff really cared too much.

It was just to feed the masses.

Oh, man.

Well, we made this really big batch of squash soup, just pallets and pallets of frozen butternut squash.

But we did have big like 10-pound, 20-pound bags of pre-cut onions.

So we were able to give it some depth and there was some like corn syrup laying around.

So we made it kind of a sweet, like almost like a butternut squash bisque, I guess you could say.

And it turned out nice.

Then another time, one thing that I didn't regret giving to the inmates, but it was we had this two huge pallets of like this really fresh, amazing asparagus that as a chef and a cook, you really like and appreciate.

We had to just boil that to death.

It just turned camouflage green and it was just plopped into trays.

It was so bad.

It was so sad to see all that hard work from the farms being just, you know, killed and mashed and put into green slop.

Oh, I think my journey to becoming a chef and the way that I've learned, it's really anchored in a lot of moments that could be humiliating for others.

And it was that for me, certainly, but it also taught me a sense of humility and that cooking is very human.

And no matter what's happening in the kitchens, at the end of the day, we're feeding people to keep them alive.

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