He “knocked on the door one day and asked if he could work here,” explains Mark Fuller, the owner.  “I told him I had 12 friends coming in that night. Make a multiple-course dinner for them using only what I have already in the kitchen,” I said. “He created a meal at the end of which all the diners stood up and gave him a standing ovation. I hired him on the spot.”  Originally from Kolkata (aka Calcutta), India, DCosta first learned how to cook from his chef grandfather (and worked with him at a Holiday Inn in Mumbai, aka Bombay), and studied cooking in India, then French and Italian methods in New York.

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