A Good Chef Fell and Nobody Noticed
You would think in this age of ubiquitous foodie press coverage that when a reasonably well-known chef dies, the media would at least acknowledge his death. Yet when 39-year-old Vincent Scotto of Gonzo died on May 17 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Brooklyn, it went almost unnoticed, in the blogosphere and out. Eater picked up on it, so did Zagat, and there was a fairly slender thread on Chowhound, but somehow his death went unacknowledged by the New York Times, even though when you punch his name into the Times search engine, 18 links come up, including a two-star review from Ruth Reichl when Scotto was all of 25.
