“I could potentially interview one band a day for a full year and probably still wouldn’t scratch the surface of the Chicago music scene,” King says.
“Interviewing a lot of different people, the people I’ve had the most success within conversation were bands and musicians. I just latched onto that.”“Not much pre-2020,” King says. “I was a bartender between 2011 through 2018. During that time, I was pretty convinced I would never be able to cook. I could put stuff together, but it’s like not making fresh pasta, using boxed pasta. Not making your own sauce, using sauce out of a jar.
And all roads lead to waffles, it seems, at least if you’re King. “I had some leftover Belgian waffles, and he challenged me to make a breakfast sandwich,” King remembers. “That turned into me taking leftover food and recontextualizing it into a new meal.”