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Rob Anderson

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Writer. Chef. Chaplain-in-formation @harvarddivinity
👨🏻‍🍳Co-owner @thecanteenptown
Sacred hospitality, trauma recovery & societal re-imagination

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Hopefully she lasts the night by @rcand

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🌅 taken in Truro, Massachusetts by @rcand

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16 days ago

Sure, it’s September and Labor Day is around the corner and the days may not be as hot and sunny as they were a few weeks ago, but this is your reminder that summer isn’t over quite yet. Let’s enjoy every second.

Photos taken at @thecanteenptown circa 2022 taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts by @rcand

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What keeps this place alive are the people who show up — early, tired, day after day, season after season. The real Cape Cod has never been about ancestry or accent, beach vacations or fried clams. It’s about the wires and the workers, the ebbs and the flows. It’s about managing the mess and, Spring after Spring, slapping a fresh new coat of white paint over it…

@rcand of @thecanteenptown and photographer @brian_kaplan explores a Cape Cod often overlooked.

Read the full story on our Substack taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts by @rcand

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My deep sea disco grill station for the day 🔥🐟🔥🪩🔥 taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts by @rcand

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2 months ago

Family haircuts with a view ✂🌊 taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts by @rcand

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3 months ago

Wharf life in July 🌭🐕📘👙with some shark sightings to make it more interesting 🦈

Et aussi : Allez les Blues! 🇫🇷 by @rcand

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3 months ago

Captain Jack’s set up, two months late. Better late than never. 🟥🟦🟩🟨⬜️ taken in Captain Jack's Wharf by @rcand

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3 months ago

The second half of June: Mostly figuring out where things should go and what color they should be. by @rcand

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3 months ago

The first half of June. Or: Tato, weeds, relics, and renewals. by @rcand

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4 months ago

Little treasures scored over the weekend, including a signed letter from Provincetown poet and vagabond Harry Kemp, dated April 26, 1940:

Upon this tip of land
That thrusts its snout of utmost sand
Into the middle of the sea
An urgent wish has come to me
Beside the shining ocean-shore
That you would clinch that bargain for
The pamphlet I am to translate
About Whales,-for this bard must state
His funds are sinking: and he could use
A few bucks more. The poet’s Muse
Is ever fated poor to be,-
Yet, thank God, this one bard is free,-
That my own man again I am,
No more a slave to Uncle Sam taken in Provincetown, Massachusetts by @rcand

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7 months ago

The reckoning around Noma has reopened an old conversation about labor, power, and culture in fine dining.

Most scandals follow a familiar script: identify the villain, assign blame, cancel someone, move on. That pattern rarely changes the deeper systems that produced the harm in the first place.

A process centered around restorative justice might ask different questions:

Who was harmed?
What do they need now?
Who is responsible for repair?
What must change so this doesn’t happen again?

Before signing up for divinity school at Harvard, I spent more than a decade working as a chef. One of the reasons I returned to school was to think more deeply about something I had begun to notice in kitchens: many people in hospitality carry complicated personal histories—trauma, instability, addiction, grief. The intensity of restaurant culture can sometimes mirror those dynamics in ways that are both powerful and destructive.

If we’re honest, the culture that produced this moment wasn’t created by one restaurant alone. Media, award systems, diners, institutions, and chefs all participated in building a prestige economy that often treated extreme sacrifice as the price of excellence.

Moments like this are painful, but they also create a rare opportunity to rethink things.

Posted with gratitude to @microbes_vibes
@lisalinddunbar and the folks at Noma shouldering the weight of this process now. And also to those who are working on these issues day in and day out. @bryantterry @michaelwtwitty @chefmavisjay @chefseansherman @karenvwashington @jenny.dorsey @chefsamanthanorton @chefrashadarmstead by @rcand

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