How WWII Stories Inspired Alon Shaya’s New Cookbook

Chef Alon Shaya says that as a kid, he wasn’t just in with the wrong crowd — he was the wrong crowd. But with the help of a home ec teacher, he turned his life around and became one of the most successful chefs in the South. Still, it took him a long time to rediscover the food of his childhood and return to his roots in his restaurants, a process that involved his own family’s inherited recipes.