My greatest culinary creation came about only because I fell victim to an enthusiastic bean salesman from Oregon.
Memoirs of a Chef & Restaurant Critic
Lee Klein served as the restaurant reviewer for Miami New Times for 14 years. He currently writes for Ocean Drive Magazine and has written for Bon Appetit,The Miami Herald, Boca Raton Magazine, Variety, and the New York Daily News.
My time as chef of Randall Gottier Catering was about more than just snarky Randall and pickled watermelon rind.
A hungry man is an angry man.
A trip with my wife to the south of France, with a stopover in Paris, promised unfathomable culinary delights. Sadly, things didn't work out as planned.
How I lied my way into a counterman job at the New York Delicatessen in Boulder, Colorado, and my subsequent transformation into the grotesquely fearsome and bloody Onion Man.
After some four decades spent in the food business, I figure it’s time to start jotting a few memories down.