Upscale Celebrity Chefs and their Swagger
Most of us don’t like to boast or brag, chefs included. It brings out the bashful in even the biggest giants. With that in mind, and with a fine tasting palate in tow, ULM has playfully granted carte blanche bragging rights to some of the latest (not so latest, tried and true) and the very greatest in the culinary industry, and gleaned some of their unique claim to Chef Fame.

CHEF CHARLIE AYERS

Chef Charlie is most widely known as the former executive chef for Google Inc., a position he won in November of 1999 in a cook-off, judged by the company’s 40 employees. By the time he left Google, Chef Charlie and his team of five sous chefs and were serving 4,000 lunches and dinners daily-all of the same quality and variety as in that initial interview. He and his cafes were featured in the New York Times, London Times, France’s Le Capital, the Washington Post, The Food Network, and many others as well as occupying an entire chapter (“Charlie’s Place”) in David Vise’s book, The Google Story. In addition, Chef Charlie has had the pleasure of cooking for such luminaries as Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Sultan of Brunei, Queen Noor of Jordan, Robin Williams and Gwyneth Paltrow. Chef Charlie just opened his new Calafia Cafe and Market a Go Go in downtown Palo Alto, the goal being to provide the greater public with healthful, artisan-sty...