SHORT TAKES : Prince Loses Chef to Junk Food

Rock star Prince’s fondness for macaroni and cheese and canned cake frosting was too much for his chef, who quit after only a month on the job.

“He eats a lot of junk food. I have the feeling it’s going to catch up with him,” Carmen Bonilla of Minneapolis said Wednesday of the svelte Prince.

Bonilla, 36, a professional chef for 10 years, said she began working for Prince just before Christmas. Her last day on the job was Wednesday.

“He hasn’t had the opportunity to develop his palate,” Bonilla said of the reclusive rock star. “He doesn’t eat out very much because he’s shy and he hates the public. . . . He wants the comfort food he grew up on.”

That means macaroni and cheese and cake mixes and canned frosting, said Bonilla, who prefers cooking Mediterranean cuisine. “Basically it was too restrictive for me as a personal chef,” she said.

Although he professes to be a vegetarian, Prince will not eat salads and vegetables but he will eat chicken, likes fresh fish and “adores” pasta, Bonilla said.