When he was 8 years old, Zac Hill turned to his grandmother one summer day and said four unexpected words: “I need to cook.”
She then pulled a recipe book off the shelf, drove him to a grocery store and helped him gather ingredients. Hill drew a blank on which dish they made — maybe pork tenderloin — but remembered doing what he could while she stepped in where he needed help.
Hill recently recalled that memory while sitting inside his new restaurant, Gaijin Sandos in the New Orleans Marigny neighborhood, after for more than a year as a pop-up…