Originally published at Edible Bozeman.
I waited for Menges, the recipient of the 2012 Montana Ambassadors “Entrepreneur of the Year Award,” at the Murray Bar. He arrived dressed in shorts and a Bahama shirt, then led me to the adjacent 2nd Street Bistro.
We settled at the chef ’s table, where Menges shared the tale of his life as a philosopher, sommelier, and chef, beginning from the “union of a disenfranchised monk and a pious nun.” His father had been a Trappist monk, and his mother a Cisterian nun, before the two met in Salt Lake City.