Chefs and Restaurants

Signing Off For Now ...

It’s feels a little wild to write this essay, because these are among the last few words I will write for Plate before I end my tenure as the magazine’s editor next week.

I’m a bit nostalgic as I flip through the last 15 years of work I’ve done for the magazine. The restaurant world from when I produced my first issue as editor in 2006 bears little resemblance to where I eat and...