- Food needs acid. Salt and fat isn't enough.
- Sugar goes in places you wouldn't think it belongs. Don't fight it 
- Brine your white meat and age your red meat.
- Dry your produce after you rinse it. Veggies cook WAY better when they are dry, it is a HUGE difference. (Same goes for meat, actually)
- Clean you area as you go. Seriously, do this.
- Mise en Place is everything. Get some little bowls for specifically this purpose. It might feel extravagant, but it is absolutely worth it. Prep and measure everything ahead and future you will thank you. I got my bowls at Daiso for cheap, and they are cute.
- Use a trash bowl to collect your garbage while prepping food. It's so much nicer than having to deal with the trash can.

Keep a pot to replant green onion root ends in. You'll have a mix of newer regrowth that's thick and green onion like and older regrowth that's thin and chive like.

My super religious gay relatives that preached you’d go to hell just found out their church is now anti gay.

Apparently laughing at volume ten and saying see you in hell was the wrong reaction when they announced changing religions.

Trash can in every room .

I sometimes clean the bathroom floor near the toilet while I'm sitting on the toilet. Then I just take the TP and drop it in the toilet.

I keep a spray bottle filled with vinegar and dish soap in my shower. I spray the surfaces about 2-3 times per week.

Spray then rinse.

This keeps the soap scum/shower funk to a minimum so that an actual cleaning is only needed about 3-4 times per year.

Lol I use dirty clothes to wipe the bathroom floor after I take a shower before I throw them in the wash.

I use a toilet brush (it’s never been used on the toilet) to clean my tub so I don’t have to get on my knees or in the tub to do it.

Michael Jordan. Ate at a steakhouse I worked at racked up a 6000 dollar bill and left me and my coworker zero. Zero. Needless to say I took that personally.

Bill Nye. Absolutely a total jerk. Extremely condescending and rude even when being paid to interact with people. At UCSB he gave commencement address at my sister’s graduation. Afterwards he was to meet the new graduates for a short Q&A. Terrible experience for my sister and dad that tried to get a picture and ask a question.

Sean Penn. Came to eat at the spot I was CDC at while he filmed around the block.

He sat with 4 people, and would ONLY talk to his assistant who would then tell the waitress what he wanted etc, wouldn’t even look at her.

Jenna Coleman came to a local convention and as you'd expect, people were bringing her fanart and other Doctor Who memorabilia. Stuff they'd put their souls into, that kind of thing.

Almost the minute the con closed, she shoved it all in the bin, almost literally shoving it off her table with one sweeping movement in front of everyone.

I'm not saying she should have kept and treasured every last piece but at least have the tact and to throw it in the bin backstage or when nobody is looking.

I worked production for some televised awards shows & other live events for a time.

Terrence Howard. Had to listen to him berate his own assistants and our staff at an awards show (the DAY before the show) because he couldn’t have extra tickets for his friends. Not like the seats are assigned & charted well in advance because they’re on live camera.

Henry Winkler takes the cake for the most engaging and animated person I immediately could tell was so authentic and lovely. He used to bring his mom back stage every year before one of the shows, and after my FIRST year being there and hanging out with them, he remembered my name the next year.

I also once had to help Jonathan Banks from breaking bad out of the staff door to just get a water bottle & a breath of fresh air, and he spent 20 minutes asking really interesting and thoughtful questions me about my life.

Willy Mays - He was my dad’s boyhood hero. So he was appearing at a card show. I paid for a couple of items to be signed and a short meet and greet before the general public. My dad was so funny, he was nervous and excited to meet him. Long story short, we got into the room. My dad handed over the ball he wanted to sign. My father then told him about how much he loved him as a kid, etc etc. Mays never looked up, never made eye contact, nothing. Just “next”. My dad didn’t seem to be bothered and as we walked away I said to the top of this jerk offs head “you don’t have to be such a rude jerk about it.” My dad passed last year and he always talked about how he met his hero, we buried him with the ball.

Cher

Many years ago I spent a summer working as a night concierge at a fancy hotel in London. Over that summer I interacted with several famous people - a few that come to mind are Tony Bennett, the members of Metallica, Alan Alda, Sarah Ferguson (she was still the Duchess of York at the time).

Cher was by far the most unpleasant celebrity I dealt with. She was in London promoting the release of the movie "Mermaids". As a night concierge, one of my responsibilities was to take room service calls after 10pm. One night after I had been off duty for a couple days I answered the room service line and it was Cher. She identified her room number, but her voice was immediately recognizable. She proceeded to order chocolate truffle cake and berate me for the fact that the hotel restaurant didn't have the cake the previous night (when I was off duty). She cursed me out and threatened to immediately check out of the hotel if we didn't have the cake.

I was polite and got off the call as quickly as I could. I walked down the kitchen to hand deliver the order. Fortunately they had some cake left.

To this day I loathe her - no other guest treated me so rudely that summer.

James Corden. We don’t need to go in to details as it was a friend’s party. Needless to say.. utter jerk.

J Lo. Worked in the industry. We were doing a commercial for her perfume or something. Her and Mark Anthony were pains in the a*s. He got a PA taken off set. because he didn’t like the way he looked. It was racial I suspect as he was the only one that was a different color than the rest of us. But that’s just my assumption. Maybe our best PA for that shoot too. She was just a general PIA.

At the end when we were wrapping, her entourage (a bunch of her weird cousins and s**t) pulled an Escalade up to her trailer and threw on one of her songs really loud. Then they lined up to sort of form this gauntlet like a red carpet for dignitaries. Mind you, this is on the back lot at Universal or WB. I don’t remember. So there’s nobody around. A few grips and PAs picking up some gear. A janitor maybe. Then these weird girls in like prom dresses lined up with one of her bad songs playing. Waiting for her to come out of the trailer and then walk 15 feet to the car. She doesn’t come out and one of them breaks rank, runs to the car and restarts the song. Then runs back to wait. I was sitting on the back for a cube truck smoking a cigarette with my production manager just blown away.

I worked with many, many celebrities in Hollywood but never saw that level of weird self involvement. I know it’s out there but that was the worst I witnessed that comes to mind right now. This was like 20 years ago btw.