Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. – Oscar Wilde
Year: 2011
John Tesar – Dallas’ Bad Boy Chef
Photo by Kevin Marple
Profanity? Violence? Bigotry? Pornographers? Drinking on the job? In restaurant kitchens? This article in Dallas Magazine of a couple of months ago has it all, and paints John Tesar as a self-consumed chef with horns and a pitchfork, and Anthony Boudain’s muse or bitch — depending on your perspective.
When he was manning the stoves as Rick Moonen’s #1 at RM Seafood between 2004-2006, we just thought of him as a soft-spoken guy who could cook the bejesus out of seafood.
Read the (long) article and decide for yourself — amidst the threats, tears and recriminations — just how bad a boy he is. You might also wonder about cooks and owners who get put off by ethnic slurs and cursing in kitchens (isn’t that par for the course?), and the ADD and self-destructiveness that drives so many people in the restaurant business.
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Merci beaucoup to www.egullet.org editor, regular Vegas visitor and Friend of ELV Jeff Meeker for sending us the article.
Disturbing Food Song That Gives You an Idea Where ELV Will Be Lunching This Weekend
ELV note: We’ve heard this song a hundred times over the decades, and it’s in heavy rotation among our shower standards. (ELV’s falsetto is world famous….among those who have heard him sing in the shower.) Besides the title and subject matter, the tune is notable for two reasons: 1) ELV always thought The Newbeats were black; and, 2) He always thought the lead singer (despite the lyrics) was a woman. Thus is he now as confused as the girls listening at 1:16 in the video.