Charles Trotter (September 8, 1959 - November 5, 2013) was an American chef and restaurateur. His most well-known restaurant, Charlie Trotter's, was open in Chicago from 1987 to 2012. Trotter was born in Wilmette, Illinois and graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois.
He attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois from 1977 to 1979, and then transferred to University of Wisconsin–Madison. Trotter started cooking professionally in 1982 after earning a political sciencebachelor's degree from UW–Madison.
For five years after college, he worked and studied in Chicago, San Francisco (at the California Culinary Academy), Florida and Europe.
He opened his first restaurant in Chicago with his father, Bob Trotter, as his partner.
Trotter was the host of the 1999 PBS cooking show The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter, in which he details his recipes and cooking techniques. He likened cooking to an improvisational jazz session in that as two riffs will never be the same, so too with food. He also wrote 14 cookbooks and three management books, and promoted a line of organic and all-natural gourmet foods distributed nationally.
Trotter was involved with his philanthropic Charlie Trotter Culinary Education Foundation and other causes. He was awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award in 2005 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
He invited groups of public high school students into his restaurant as part of his Excellence Program two to three times per week: after eating a meal, the students were told how the food was prepared and the motivations of those preparing it.
Trotter also was unusual among celebrity chefs for his outspokenness in matters of ethics, most famously when he took foie gras off the menu in 2002 for ethical reasons. However, Trotter refused to be associated with the animal rights group Farm Sanctuary stating, "These people are idiots. Understand my position: I have nothing to do with a group like that. I think they're pathetic. … ome of their tactics are crude and uncivilized even."
Trotter made a cameo appearance in the 1997 film My Best Friend's Wedding, screaming at an assistant, "I will kill your whole family if you don't get this right! I need this perfect!" a parody of a stereotypical screaming angry chef.
Net Worth:

Charlie Trotter Net Worth: $100 Million

Charlie Trotter's Income / Salary:
Per Year: $20 Million

Per Month: $2 Million

Per Week: $500,000

Per Day:	Per Hour:	Per Minute:	Per Second:
$70,000	$3,000	$50	$1.00

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