Scott Feldman, Anne Burrell, Geoffrey Zakarian and Harold Dieterle
Cooking has become a spectator sport. It’s a good bet that for every sporting event you watch, and every LeBron James or Peyton Manning that enters the game, you’ll find an A-list of great epicurean personalities cooking for hundreds of adoring fans. And while a locker room is usually synonymous with athletes, this locker room—the meat locker at Pat LaFrieda Wholesale Meat Company on Washington Street—was the perfect place to assemble some grade-A prime talent: Anne Burrell, host of Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef; Geoffrey Zakarian, chef/owner of Town and Country and chef of The Lambs Club; and Harold Dieterle, first-season winner of Bravo’s Top Chef and chef at Perilla.
As an agent to this crew, I feel a part of the game myself. Whether they’re making live appearances at culinary festivals or doing their thing on TV, these knife-slinging rock stars are changing what food and cooking mean to the world—and America is defi nitely hungry for more.
