How teen went from selling drugs to cooking for Daniel Boulud

Cesar Gutierrez
C•CAP Class of 2016

It wasn’t long ago that a job at Burger King started Cesar Gutierrez on a path away from a life of crime toward one of culinary success, which eventually would lead him to cook for Daniel Boulud and train at one of the best culinary schools in France.Now 22, Gutierrez grew up in Queens, N.Y. He left home at the age of 12, after taking seriously his parents’ tough-love threat to throw him out.