

Schrager may have been raised when boys did woodshop and girls stuck to home ec, but with a teacher’s encouragement, his mother’s passion for cooking, and a deathly fear of buzz saws, he eventually became one of the most powerful personalities in food.
“My home ec teacher, a lady named Linda Darnell, told my mom about the Culinary Institute of America and my mom looked into it,” he recalled. "Who knew there was a career in cooking?”
