Meet the Celebrated Chef Who Cooks Secret Marijuana Dinners to Promote Pot Culture

The instructions in the anonymous email were only somewhat clear: When I got to the warehouse in Brooklyn, I was supposed to walk around back, through the parking lot, and up the loading-dock stairs. I did just that and was promptly greeted and escorted through a back door, down the hall, up a flight of stairs, down another hallway, then around yet another corner. Finally, though, I arrived at the tiny dining room and makeshift kitchen where I and about 20 other guests would eat a clandestine marijuana tasting menu put together by one of New York's most well-known cooks of Filipino cuisine.

The highly secretive nature of the meal was necessary, of course, since weed is what you might call barely legal in New York State. Possession of less than 25 grams is a ticketed offense, and the state's new medical-marijuana program has some of the toughest restrictions in...

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