Puck's second coming.(restaurateur Wolfgang Puck)

Los Angeles Magazine | April 1, 1997| | Copyright

"I don't want to be bored." Wolfgang Puck--the seasoned subject of dozens upon baker's dozens of interviews and food features and puff pieces, a dynamic advertisement for himself on Good Morning America, having ages ago consolidated his reputation as this country's most public restaurant chef and neogourmet entrepreneur--bored? Maybe I didn't hear him correctly Maybe he really said, in his creamy, Schwarzenegger way--with hands out and palms up--"I don't want to be a billboard."

After all, chef Puck, in the expansive middle of his life at 46, has spread his ...

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