D Magazine .
Most people hire a personal chef to make more time available to spend with their families.
Former Baby Routh chef John Brinkman passed up several lucrative restaurant opportunities to create time to be with his. Brinkman, the father of two, says that being a personal chef has changed his life. Even though he travels with his clients to Nantucket, Carmel, and Aspen, he still gets to see his kids more than he did working seven nights a week in a commercial kitchen. Brinkman claims the only views he gets of these cities brimming with the rich and famous is from a kitchen window. I had to realize that is their vacation, not mine.