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David Comes Clean in Vanity Fair
The Life and Confessions of Mob Chef David Ruggerio
In the May 2022 issue of Vanity Fair, David revels a blockbusting revelation-
In the 1980s and 1990s David Ruggerio was a rising star of French cooking in New York—and a proto–celebrity chef with cookbooks and TV shows to his name. But all that success in the kitchen belied the double life he was leading as a rank-and-file member of the Mob. Decades after his fall from grace and mysterious disappearance from the food world, Ruggerio is coming clean.
To read the article in its entirety- https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/the-life-and-confessions-of-mob-chef-david-ruggerio
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