Sometimes things don’t go as planned. Ocean 44 executive chef Marc Lupino flew to the remote fishing village of Cordova, Alaska, to take part in the “first fish” of the Copper River salmon season. Chefs fly out yearly to “take some glamour photos of them with a fish in their hand, they’ll bring it back and act like they caught it,” Lupino says. “That’s what it was supposed to be.” Instead, he found himself on a hard-core commercial fishing boat.
