Good Magazine interview with Food Industry Mug Shots collector Lou Jacobs

Good Magazine interview with Food Industry Mug Shots collector Lou Jacobs

Thursday, Mar 04, 2010

Maybe bad-ass chefs like Anthony Bourdain and David Chang aren't really anything new. Restaurants have seedy, sometimes violent, underbellies. And sometimes, cooks get caught doing what they shouldn't. Four years ago, Dr. Lou Jacobs found a mug shot and started collecting original images from the dark side of the food world. He found bartenders, cooks, and waiters who had been pushed over the edge and were accused of murder, theft, pimping and pandering, and drunken and disorderly conduct.