Becoming A Chef
A chef and new restrauteur of note is 31-year-old Edward Lee from Brooklyn’s Korean section in New York City. Chef Lee’s cuisine showcases locally grown produce of his restaurant’s Kentucky locale. Growing up pickling eggplant, cucumbers, and carrots with his grandmother formed his love for food and for cooking. Edward worked at Trump Tower’s Terrace Five restaurant during high school, then helped run his family’s eatery in mid-town Manhattan. After working in several more New York kitchens, including one under the tutelage of legendary chef Frank Crispo, he opened his first restaurant in New York’s NoLiTa (North of Little Italy) area. After five years of media acclaim both nationally and internationally, Edward sold out and moved to Kentucky – where he is in the process of repeating his past success.
So don’t feel you’ll be stuck in some highbrow, low-interest, golf-course-ridden resort, or even you own home kitchen. If you want to become a chef, go get your official cooking papers. Shoot for the stars! Or the steamboats! Or, hey – even the White House!
