"Most of us who live and operate in the culinary underworld are in some fundamental way dysfunctional," Anthony Bourdain wrote in 1999, in the New Yorker piece that would lead to his magnum opus Kitchen Confidential. He proclaimed the professional kitchen "the last true refuge of the misfit," and while many would argue that still holds true nearly two decades later, even now there pervades an unfortunate double standard in which the sort of so-called dysfunction that often drives people toward cooking as a profession is still too heavily stigmatized to talk about.
One woman is on a quest to change that: Kat Kinsman, the food writer formerly of CNN and current editor-at-large of Tasting Table, has just launched a project she’s calling Chefs With Issues, dedicated to destigmatizing mental illness in the culinary industry and helping those affected by it get the help they otherwise can't (or won't).
[For more of this story, written by Whitney Filloon, go to http://www.eater.com/2016/1/6/...insman-mental-health]
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