As dozens of former employees and interns have come forward with serious allegations about the working environment at Noma, Hannah Twiggs looks of the long list of great chefs mythologised as volatile geniuses and why it’s being called out now F or years, the restaurant industry has clung to a strange myth: that brilliance in the kitchen comes with a bad temper. The great chefs , the story went, were rarely calm men. They shouted, they threw plates, they demanded perfection at all costs.