THE NEXT BIG THING: New School American Cheese

San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour · Sep 1, 2023 · 58m

Eric Greenspan didn't do what he did—go through the years of training at the world's best restaurants, slog and hustle and cut a metric **** ton of onions and carrots, become one of SoCal's star chefs, make his way onto national TV, open an L.A. restaurant that earned raves from everyone, including Jonathan Gold—to become known, widely, as "the cheese guy." But he's not mad at it. "As a chef, you're going to give me this identity and platform that will ultimately expose you to the other things I do? I'll take it all day long," he says. At his former restaurant, The Foundry, instead of the…