Jacob Katel
The Sidewalk Chef in action at Crocco's
Chef Shashank Agtey started his culinary career at The Forge as a dishwasher back when it was still owned by Meyer Lansky. He ended up in Miami from Bombay, India after his father dropped him off on our shores at the age of 17 with $125 in his pocket. Bad eyesight meant the military fighter pilot career for which he'd been groomed his whole life would not come to pass, so he was sent to America to seek his destiny. This is not made up.Sh
T. J. English's best-selling book, Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution, went over like a lead balloon in certain corners of El Exilio. The book paints Fulgencio Batista as a corrupt leader all too willing to play ball -- and take kickbacks -- from powerful mobsters, most notably Meyer Lansky. By the time Fidel Castro and his rebels marched into town, the mobsters were practically asking for it. The Hollywood Reporter says a movie adaption is in its e
art by Hector "The Director"​Shashank Agtey is the Sidewalk Chef, a wacky South Florida entrepreneur with over twenty years experience in professional kitchens starting at The Forge on Miami Beach back when it was still owned by gansgta gangsta Meyer Lansky.We've written about the Sidewalk Chef before, click here and here to follow the journey. Shashank is always busy and every once in a while tells us about new developments.Chef will start teaching his Miami Dade College cooking class on
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