Jacques Gautier Talks Eating, Cooking and Composting in Brooklyn

Earlier this week we reported that the Bloomberg administratration has plans to impose mandatory composting for New York City residents and restaurants in the coming years, but Brooklyn chef Jacques Gautier is already prepared. He devoted the 1,200-square-foot roof of his Park Slope restaurant, Palo Santo, to composting, garden boxes and more when it opened in 2006. He also lives above the 50-seat Latin American- and Caribbean-inspired restaurant with his family, and...