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    'Generation Chef'

    At age 26, Jonah Miller was living in New York City, $700,000 in the red ahead of the opening night of his East Village restaurant, Huertas. Sounds terrifying, we know, but this is often the path taken by millennial chefs, says Karen Stabiner . Her new book is Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream .

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    By Evan Kleiman • Feb 17, 2017 • 1 min read

    At age 26, Jonah Miller was living in New York City, $700,000 in the red ahead of the opening night of his East Village restaurant, Huertas. Sounds terrifying, we know, but this is often the path taken by millennial chefs, says Karen Stabiner. Her new book is Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream.

    Music: "The Weight of Living, Pt. 1" (instrumental) by Bastille

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