While growing up in Los Angeles, Yosef Schwartz became hooked on New York… He additionally became hooked on cooking, although his father, a rabbi, insisted that his sons complete their religious education. Schwartz, 27, made his father proud, completing studies at Brooklyn’s Yeshiva Ohlei

Torah at age 20… Schwartz’s father made good on his promise to fund his son’s culinary education, and Schwartz earned his associate’s degree from the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. He specialized in French cuisine.

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