In The Weeds with Ben Randall

We're back home in Traverse City. We don't stay long, but we make some solid, painful memories.

Tonight we get a completely different view of restaurants, the LGBT experience. Lives are changed.

Still stuck in Texas, but this week I get introduced to Creole food, so there's a plus. Also, fuck Texas.

Oh, man. We go this week to Houston Texas, where I learn 1,000 reasons to hate Houston, Texas.

Today we're answering some questions, dispelling some myths, playing around.

There are 2 years to culinary school. Here's the second one.

Tonight, I learn that I know a lot, but my cockiness gets the shine ground off of it.

Tonight we define some restaurant terms, some common, some uncommon, some totally made up.

Ever work for a private club? 1 part Kitchen Nightmares, 1 part The Real World, 1 part Caddyshack.

Time to get all fancy schmantzy.

And we're on to a bigger city and into the underbelly of hotel work. Â Bon Voyage!

On to bigger (?) and better (?). Â Yeah, we'll see.

A youngster from the woods of Northern Michigan chooses a life where everything is either hot, sharp, heavy or angry.