Carolina Trimmings Sara Foster, a former chef for Martha Stewart, is an owner of Foster's Market, a takeout and eat-in food shop with two locations, in Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C., and a mail-order list of shelf-stable foods.
CHRISTOPHE HILLE/NATHAN FOOT/CHRIS RONIS RESTAURANT This place, as yet unnamed, is the brainchild of Mr. Hille, a former chef and owner of A16 in San Francisco; Mr. Foot, also a San Francisco chef; and Mr. Ronis, a New Yorker.
But at least one of his former employees, a former chef at one of his restaurants, questioned Mr. Rodriguez's business acumen and said he had made some poor decisions.
A former chef, fresh out of rehab, takes a job cooking for a music superstar named Monster — but the Monster's lair turns out to have dark secrets hidden inside.
"Now, chefs are treated like rock stars," said Brian Maynard, a former chef who is director of appliance marketing for KitchenAid, Whirlpool's premium brand.
They are thick, animated hands, the hands of a former chef.
Los Angeles woodworker Ryan Silverman and his wife, Eileen O'Dea, a former chef, use as many as 750 pieces of wood to make their one-of-a-kind end-grain cutting boards.
Under the supervision of Christopher Lee, a former chef at Chez Panisse turned master sausage-maker, zesty Italianate salumi are created right below the dining room.
35 St Georges Road, Kemptown, 01273 699082, pizzafacepizza.co.uk A former chef and the one-time editor of food magazine Delicious, Matthew Drennan now runs this Hove bakery-cafe.
Nikki Sunseri, the general manager of Las Perlas, a former chef with long black hair and pale skin scrimshawed with tattoos, had come, too, along with Andrew Abrahamson, a gentle booze savant who oversees Moses' single-spirit bars, and Pedro Shanahan, a by-donation-only yoga teacher and freelance philosopher, who is Moses' "spirit guide".
