Elliot Cooks

Chef Elliott Welburn

In January, 2008 I realized I wasn't doing myself any favors sitting in an office while going to culinary school at night; so I left a well-paying job at a large Wall Street Bank to start working at a Midtown Manhattan restaurant. Four months later, I finished culinary school and haven't looked back. What follows is an ever-changing collection of my stories, mishaps, nightmares and triumphs of working as a cook, and trying to become a Chef in New York City.