John Turnbull, the Brooklyn-bred executive chef at Madre (214 Franklin St.), loves traveling all over the world and learning about different cuisines.
Turnbull was raised in South Brooklyn, but is currently a Greenpoint local. After crunching numbers as an economics major in college, he decided the finance world wasn’t for him and wanted to try his hand at cooking, starting at the very bottom as a delivery driver.
He’s worked at Antica Pesa(115 Berry…
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