Whew!

The rest of the country may be worrying over recession, but not New York’s top chefs, for whom the good times are a-rollin’. “It’s not my feeling that we’re in a recession,” says Ed Brown of Eighty One in this article by Frank Bruni. “The rest of the country? Maybe. But we’re in our own country of New York.”

As a good friend of mine likes to say: that’s nice for you. All I know is, I can finally cross the financial security of Manhattan’s celebrity chefs off the list of things keeping me up at night.