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"Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter" with director Rebecca Halpern

Charlie Trotter was one of Chicago's first culinary bad boys, paving the way for the celebrity chefs like Anthony Bourdain and Gordon Ramsay. Today I'm talking with Rebecca Halpern, the director of Love, Charlie, the documentary about chef Charlie Trotter that the Chicago Sun-Times’ film critic Richard Roeper calls “one of the best documentaries of the year.”