Portrait of the Artist as a Sous Chef: Michael Rottman Paints ’n’ Plates

It is high summer on the Vineyard and nowhere more than at l’étoile restaurant in Edgartown, where customers are filling up the dining rooms indoors and out and sitting shoulder to shoulder at the bar late into the night.

And the food being prepared for them is a work of art. Well, actually it’s the work of an artist.