What It's Like to Lead Chefs Collaborative

When I was growing up, my mom became very concerned about diet because her father died of heart disease, so she wrote a low-cholesterol kosher cookbook. We guinea-pigged all these recipes, and I learned that flavor and texture can be manipulated. I worked in some delis in high school but never thought I would want to do this. Later, I took some time off from college, and the job I was doing involved sitting still...