Alley Light review: A French chef's cooking glows in Charlottesville

Jose De Brito, the French-born chef behind one of the most intriguing restaurants in Charlottesville, never went to cooking school. Much of what he needed to know about feeding a crowd he learned from being the eldest in a family of 10 children in a town outside Paris, where convenience foods were few and "my mom needed help," so of course he whipped mayonnaise by hand.