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Buster, Carolyn
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Carolyn Buster Welbon as taped at The Cottage Calumet City, IL Carolyn Buster Welbon was a powerhouse in the culinary world. For twenty years her restaurant, The Cottage, flourished in Calumet City, was a destination for Chicago diners. Unschooled — she did not attend a culinary academy — Carolyn learned the business working with the [...]
Verge, Lucien
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Lucien VergeL'EscargotChicago IL While many French restaurants were transformed by the influence of nouvelle cuisine, Lucien Verge’s L’Escargot remained a bastion of the simple, honest food of provincial French cooking. In fact, customers were so thrilled by his cassoulet that they did not allow him to remove it from the menu, even during the hot [...]
Scocos, RoxSand
Thursday, July 9th, 2009RoxSand ScocosRoxSandPhoenix AZ The honors keep piling up for RoxSand Scocos. In addition to being selected a Great Chef, she was named Best Chef – Southwest (1999) by the James Beard Foundation, following consecutive nominations and being named a James Beard “Rising Star” chef in 1991. RoxSand has won the prestigious DiRoNA Award year after [...]
Tower, Jeremiah
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Jeremiah Tower retired taped at Stars, San Francisco In a world in which chefs have become celebrities, there are a very few who are the epicenters of real change. Jeremiah Tower is one of these seminal chefs, one of the fault lines on the culinary map. Appropriately, he has been closely connected to San Francisco. [...]
Banchet, Jean
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Jean Banchet taped at Le Francais and La Riviera Chicago, and Atlanta Jean Banchet first came to the attention of Great Chefs in the early ‘80s, when the call went out for nominations for chefs to be taped in Chicago. Over and over, nominations came back with Jean Banchet, then at his Le Francais restaurant [...]
Stitt, Frank
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Frank Stitt Highlands Bar and Grill Birmingham AL http://www.highlandsbarandgrill.com For a boy from Cullman, Alabama, Frank Stitt has certainly developed an international palate. Stitt began college studying philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. There he met Alice Waters of the renowned Chez Panisse, and Frank Olney. Awakened to the culinary world, Stitt worked [...]
Chef Marco Morillo Offers FREE Cooking Show At The M Resort Las …
Saturday, May 26th, 2012Prior to founding Crave, Chef Morillo worked with the late Jean Louis Palladin at Napa inside the Rio Las Vegas Casino. It was there that Chef Morillo became a trailblazer in the culinary world. In 1994, Tony Marnell II, former CEO of …
One process followed by the next: Making the cut: 'Top Chef …
Saturday, May 26th, 2012Takashi Yagihashi, guest judge, “Top Chef” Season 6. Chicago nominee: John Hogan (Keefer’s) Why he’d make the cut: John is the ringleader of chefs in Chicago. Everyone in the Chicago culinary world knows and respects John. …
Highlands Bar & Grill – Birmingham | gas•tron•o•my
Saturday, May 26th, 2012Born and raised in Cullman, Alabama, Chef Stitt stumbled into the culinary world serendipitously while studying philosophy at Berkeley. He spent time in the kitchens of Jeremiah Tower and Alice Waters, and worked alongside famed food …
