"I can’t handle the cult of the chef as the tortured genius. At this point, it’s a disease in the restaurant world. You didn’t invent anything. You pushed some stuff together and you made it taste good."
—musician and chef Brooks Headley, interviewed by Sam Korman
He’s not going to like it if I write this, but Brooks Headley is a lot of people’s hero. For some of you, the hero worship might have started as far back as the early 1990s, when Headley played drums ...