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Ex-Waldorf Astoria cook recounts salad days as youngest executive chef

John Doherty, former longtime top chef at the Waldorf. So where did he learn to cook in the first place?

Doherty: “I grew up on Long Island. At 15, I got a job washing dishes. A little restaurant, Johnny’s Charcoal House, husband and wife team, asked me to help them. I cooked through high school then to the Culinary Institute at 18.

“At 19, I started at the Waldorf and stayed 30 years. I got off a bus, saw this massive building and was like, ‘What the hell.’ I walk in, I say, ‘Where’s the kitchen?’ Second floor. A crazy busy place. I see the one guy wearing black pants and figure he must be the chef.

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