Are Celebrity Chefs Good for Food?
Los Angeles may have given the world its first celebrity chef – Wolfgang Puck – but it’s also nursing something of a backlash. As LA Weekly food writer Jonathan Gold explained, the Los Angeles City Council, in deciding whether to bring new restaurants to the Los Angeles International Airport, had “a note of contempt in their voices” as they discussed celebrity chefs. “As opposed to the good hardworking union people who have been turning out perfectly dreadful food for years,” Gold joked with the crowd at the Skirball Cultural Center. …
