Before he became the first celebrity chef, Wolfgang Puck was a boy in post-war Austria. He left home at 14, desperate to escape his abusive stepfather. Puck knew he liked being in the kitchen with his grandmother, where he felt safe. Broke and alone, he became a cook's apprentice.
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Jacqueline Cutler is a longtime journalist covering television on a national and international level, after many hard news beats. She serves on the executive board of the Television Critics Association and currently writes the "Shattering the Glass Ceil… read more
