A Food Documentary That Would Kill on Delta

Michael McCarty’s story is The Kid Stays in the Picture for chefs.

Michael McCarty (front) with the opening Michael's team, including (from left): Jonathan Waxman, Mark Peel, and Ken Frank.

I want to make a documentary. Did I attend film school? Make actual films? Watch a lot of documentaries? No, no, and YES. I never really took journalism classes in college in the late ’90s, but I read a lot of Talk and Caroline Mille…