Interviews

Talking With One of Our City’s Few Gay Male Exec Chefs

Photo: Courtesy of Adam Jones

The chef game is one that’s fairly well dominated by men, specifically straight men, though in the mix you’ll find a number of women these days — though not a ton of them at the executive chef level, and of those in higher positions, there are a number of lesbians. In honor of Gay Pride month, KQED is interviewing various LGBT chefs in town, and they just chatted with one of S.F.’s few gay male chefs, Adam Jones, executive chef at Palomino. He talks about this fact, and about how he arrived in town to work at the Franciscan when he himself was still straight — he only later came out and has been with his husband for fourteen years. “Being gay on a chef’s resume may be a positive,” he says. “If you’re a lesbian, then you’re super alpha and strong. And if you’re a gay man, it’s really the same thing.” [KQED]

Talking With One of Our City’s Few Gay Male Exec Chefs