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Richard Morgan
irst came a Moroccan chef. He lasted 17 months. Then 11 months of a Portuguese chef, a 13-month stint with an Ivorian chef, a 26-month stretch with a second Portuguese chef — the first woman — followed by a 29-month stay by an American chef and a comparatively epic 44 months of Mexican chef work. Now, since November 2017, for the first time since opening in 2006, Nomad, an Algerian restaurant in the East Village, has had an Algerian chef, Karim Lahcene. At a pace beyond rush hour or month-to-month rent, it took 11 years’ worth of New York minutes — even longer than Odysseus’ famous trek homeward.READ MORE
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