James Beard Nominee Chef Lenny Russo; Unmodified Part I

Published: March 8, 2020, 5:19 p.m.

You can call him Chef, author, a forager, an early farm to table advocate or simply a philosopher and you’d be right on all counts. As a son of a lower income Italian family in New Jersey, Lenny was surrounded by food from an early age, and it stuck.