Who is Ben Grossman in the nonfiction book, The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America?

Ben Grossman is the leader in the Skills class with Ruhlman. He is a twenty-five-years-old guy, and comes from Rockland County, New York. Ben spends a year, working as an accountant in New York, but in 1993, an article in the New Yorker with a recipe for turkey meatloaf sets him on a quest to become a chef.