One of the benefits Google employees enjoy is free food ("Employees enjoy free lunch 5 days per week. Plus breakfast food and all the snacks you can eat!"). According to an article in Food Managment, Google's executive chef, Charlie Ayers, "has complete autonomy in making up the menu and procuring the ingredients to prepare it. That gives him the luxury to indulge his preferences for organic and natural products, and to exercise his culinary imagination while experimenting with exotic ingredients in a way even many high-end commercial restaurateurs might envy."
Charlie's daily menus were blogged at the aptly-named yet sadly now defunct Google Daily Menus blog. Thankfully, The Official Google Blog gives us a welcome glimpse into Charlie's kitchen with his recent post about Chicken a la The King, a fried chicken recipe he learned while working in the kitchen of the Waldorf Astoria with one Robert Brown. Beware of the Google-sized portions ("3 cases organic free range chicken (roughly 30 chickens, divided into 1.5- to 2-lb. sections)"), and/or reference a recipe adjuster.
