Recently I wrote about Thomas Keller reuniting with a father who had abandoned the family when the famed French Laundry chef was just five years old. Unlikely as it seems as chronicled in the New York Times by Kim Severson, the two found they really liked one another and for about three years the son finally had a father and the father must have felt like he had won the lottery. Sadly, Ed Keller had a severe accident that left him a paraplegic, and as he lay dying, Thomas Keller cooked a simple meal of barbequed chicken and greens. Hand fed him. Then his dad died.

New York Times writer Kim Severson recently wrote a wonderfully moving piece about Chef Thomas Keller, he of the much acclaimed French Laundry in Yountville, California, and his estranged father, he, a tall and tough former Marine Drill Instructor who had abandoned his family when Thomas, the youngest of five, was five years old. It seems when the two became reacquainted after almost 50 years, after Thomas had reached out, they realized they liked each other very much and also recognized they had very similar personalities.