Chef Appeal
Why chefs? Why now?
In the United States, chefs have recently become idols. There has been
a virtual explosion in their media appearances, celebrity stature, and their
number and variety of devotees. Emeril Lagasse, to take a leading example of
today’s celebrated chefs, is so well known and admired that, in the popular
movie Last Holiday (2006), starring Queen Latifah, “Emeril” ^YY H^[ Y