/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>4922606
who's that wanker and why should I care?

>>4922616

He's Charlie Trotter, one of the all-time great American chefs.

>>4922616

He was like the merican' version of Heston except he cooked good food.

Damn. That really sucks. He was too young to go.
RIP Charlie.

>>4922627

He was like 55 bro, that's borrowed time for a chef.

>>4922623
so a kind of Adriá knockoff for americlaps? regardless, he really was too young, I kinda feel sorry for his family.

>>4922629
Nah, many a great chef has lived to at least their 70s. Although, by that time, they're usually retired from the kitchen. 55 is not in any way old.

>>4922634

No way bro, the OP is just a really old pic of him...look at how much he aged and gained weight, he was living in the body of an 85 y/o man. Nigga was on borrowed time after 50.

>>4922631

No, no. He came into prominence well before molecular gastronomy's ascent into trendiness.

He was like Heston in that he was completely self-taught. He also wrote a bookshelf full of cookbooks that were passed around American restaurant kitchens for the last twenty years, elevating the cuisine as a whole. I think there were something like 20,000 unique dishes created at Trotter's? Maybe more?

I had a tour of his kitchen six years back. It was fucking CARPETED. It was the most pristine, orderly, quiet kitchen I've ever seen. A cook told me that if you got sauce on your whites, you would get called "Jackson Pollack" and sent home for the evening.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/02/charlie-trotters-closing-_n_1179466.html

I wonder if he just got bored and depressed after closing his restaurant. It wasn't losing money so I wonder what the real reason could be.

>>4922646

It's because he got two stars and the two trendy gastronomy restaurants got three.

Dude had been waiting his whole fucking life for Michelin to finally make their way to Chicago.

>tfw crazy french midget Joel Robuchon will die in your lifetime

feels bad man

Too bad he was a pretentious, jack ass.

>call restaurant for a reservation
>bitch: ok that will be 500.00, what's your credit card number?
>wait wat
>bitch: non-refundable reservation fee, credit card number?
>b.but I...
>bitch: this isn't the place for you *click*

FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>4922642
now I just feel dumb for not having even heard about him until now. pretty shit news this is then.

>>4922649
Honestly, isn't two Michelin stars a good rating from them?

>>4922688
Chefs tend to be egotistical.

>>4922646
If you read the Chicago Tribune article posted in the OP, he apparently died from a burst aneurism deep in his brain, which is also what caused him to close down his restaurant and retire. The doctors told him he had very little time left to live, that the weak blood vessel couldn't be surgically repaired, and that it could go at any moment.

>>4922658
>be poor
>somehow it's the other people's fault

top keyk

>>4922640
>living in the body of an 85 y/o man
>that pic

I bet you think your dad is older than the pyramid too.

>>4924039
That wasn't there in the beginning. The article was only a page long. It was also full of typos. Seems they were writing in real time.

I bet he was a substance abuser, which contributed to his death, and nobody wants to mention the fact that a lot of chefs are because he has a reputation.

>>4926632
is there a reason why you think this? or do you just know nothing about brain aneurisms?

>>4922688
It also didn't help that in the first year of Chicago being in the Michelin Guide in 2012, that one of the two restaurants that received three stars was a former protégé of Trotter's who walked off while in a Internship with Trotter in 95, not putting up with his shit..

Chef Grant Achatz of Alinea

>mfw I moved to Chicago a couple years too late to experience Charlie Trotter's
>now he's dead

In his heydays...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti0DAPbnZCA

Must be the late 90's. What happened? He looked like Winchester from Mash towards the end.

>whose eponymous Chicago restaurant was considered one of the finest in the world, has died.
No it wasn't.
>Americans.

>>4927184
>If a tire manufacturer doesn't recommend it, I won't eat there.
>eurotrash

>>4926692
Because a brain aneurysm is pretty rare whereas a death with drugs as a contributing factor is much more common when someone dies well before life-expectancy. I don't see why drugs couldn't make an aneurysm more likely considering many of them constrict blood vessels or dilate them to extremes that probably isn't good for them. Until I see autopsy results saying he had no drugs or alcohol in his system, I'm going to assume that he died with those as a contributing factor, or at least perhaps a long-term smoking habit or previous substance use as a contributing factor. Its not that likely someone just keels over and dies in their 50's without having cancer or say, a preexisting heart defect.

>>4927208
The irony of the Michelin star system in Europe is that europoors can't even afford cars.

>>4927217
>Its not that likely someone just keels over and dies in their 50's without having cancer or say, a preexisting heart defect.
lol

>>4927217
>implying that someone cannot just as easily have a preexisting blood vessel defect as a preexisting heart defect

>>4922658

from the article:

>The mercurial chef was a stern taskmaster who demanded the absolute best from everyone who worked for him.

Read: he was a choleric, insufferable prick

>>4928892

.... who treated his employees as his personal slaves and footstools.

>>4927223

this.

>>4928901

welcome to Europe. beside that we had fist fight like every 3 times a week. it went calm since i made my karate belt and knocked 3 kitchen chiefs out in one fight.(knifes and fry-pans involved) th restaurant went down for 2 weeks and owner made it clear to cook that his mafia thugs are only allowed to go rough there. since then its just insults and barking. the kitchen in ordinary European restaurant is mostly very friendly environment but when it comes to gourmets the business gets risky. especially when there are 2-3 wanabe queens.

>>4926768

That made me smile. Good for his apprentice.

>>4927217
So you assume everyone died of alcohol or drug complications first? This is the null hypothesis, because it is too fantastic that someone in their 50's dies of something other then cancer or a "heart defect"?

>>4927223
>The irony of the Michelin star system in Europe is that europoors can't even afford cars.
In America, the possession of cars is more important than healthcare and freedom.

>>4928967

On the contrary my friend, our constitution GUARANTEES our freedumb, it is enshrined in the 2nd amendment (the only part of the constitution that matters)

>>4929005
I love when millionaires play populist cowboy lol

Grant Achatz smirking right about now.


dude hated his guts.