Give Customers What You Are Destined to Give

The Chef is a great, feel-good movie about a (duh!!) chef who is divorced from his wife and estranged from his only child—a bright young boy eager to have a relationship with his dad. Carl Casper (the chef), despite his foibles in personal relationships, is an amazingly innovative chef. But, he works for a restaurant owner (played by Dustin Hoffman) who is intent on serving the same good, but unimaginative, menu year after year. The centerpiece of the movie is Carl’s confrontation with courag...