Yosef Schwartz - Crown Heights, Brooklyn
While growing up in Los Angeles, Yosef Schwartz became hooked on New York during frequent visits his family made to see relatives and friends.
He also became hooked on cooking, although his father, a rabbi, insisted that his sons complete their religious education.
Schwartz, 27, made his father proud, completing studies at Brooklyn's Yeshiva Ohlei Torah at age 20.
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Yosef Schwartz – Crown Heights, Brooklyn
While growing up in Los Angeles, Yosef Schwartz became hooked on New York during frequent visits his family made to see relatives and friends.
He also became hooked on cooking, although his father, a rabbi, insisted that his sons complete their religious education.
Schwartz, 27, made his father proud, completing studies at Brooklyn’s Yeshiva Ohlei Torah at age 20.
“I performed weddings right out of school,” Schwartz said. “The first was a friend’s from Arizona, right after I got my rabbinical degree. It was a really small wedding in their backyard.”
Schwartz’s father made good on his promise to fund his son’s culinary education, and Schwartz earned his associate’s degree from the California School of Culinary Arts in Pasadena. He specialized in French cuisine.
With his new expertise in classic French techniques, Schwartz landed a $15 an hour job with a kosher caterer in L.A.
Schwartz didn’t mind the meager pay because “down the line, if I can’t earn great money from it, I believe I will have a better quality of life doing something I love.”
Today, he’s executive chef and a shareholder in the Brooklyn kitchen of Fresh Diet, which delivers three meals and two snacks at $35 to $45 a day. (A kosher option is $39.99.)
“I make the menus and run the daily production of the meals,” said Schwartz, who earns $60,000 a year. “I’m in the health industry. I believe that that’s the future.”
Much hatzlacha
Bs”d
Lots of luck-Do You do in-house parties/events.
David Zelinsky, Palisades
Go Yosef–you are an awesome person and an inspiration to many.
Fresh Diet Fan
Good for you Yos!!
Power to you!
May the Schwartzie forever be with you!
Gotta Believe
Yo Yose, very inspired by you, looks like you shook off all those sandwitches from back in the day,
Tito
Food
WOW!
lay and ber
yos u rockkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!u made it all da way but we know y u made it cuz of ur bro berry and ur niece leah