Biscuit Boy – Albuquerque, New Mexico
In Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago, a sagacious old Russian czarist caught up in the communist revolution lamented “Scratch a Russian and you will find a peasant.” To paraphrase that immortal line “Scratch a cook and you’ll find a chemist.” Think I’ve been ingesting pharmaceuticals? Maybe you should ask Deonte “Dee” Halsey, the affable owner of Biscuit Boy about the influence of chemistry in cooking. He would know! Dee was actually a research scientist working for the U.S. Department of Architecture before figuring out teaching science actually pays more than doing science. Dee has been teaching science and math for more than two decades now, imparting knowledge and wisdom to high school, middle school and elementary school students. For the past two…