... Manhattan’s trendiest restaurants, the Spotted Pig. The chef’s name is April Bloomfield. April claims that when she first interviewed for the chef’s position at the Spotted Pig, the owners never asked her to cook for them. Instead, co-owner Mario Batali, a famous chef in his own right, hired Bloomfield the minute he saw her scars. Like many committed chefs, Bloomfield’s arms are crisscrossed with scars, healed burns, that she received while reaching into an oven, or stirring a pot, or re-arranging ...
