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Conversations with the Chef – Justin Taylor, Executive Chef, Park Hyatt, Banana Bay, St. Kitts and Nevis

  • December 19, 2019
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

The Stuff Of Chefs Dreams—Chef Justin Taylor may have woken up one morning to the realization that he had landed an executive chef position surrounded by the idyllic beauty of the St. Kitts Caribbean wonderland but little did he know that his right-place-at-the right-moment would also be the stuff of

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Chefs Coast-to-Coast — Featuring Elliot Cunniff, Chef de Cuisine, Soho Grand Hotel, New York City

  • June 22, 2016
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

YET ANOTHER CULINARY WUNDERKIND – Chef Elliot Cunniff – a brief excursion through his fast and furious culinary-climb-formula, actually, tree swing is a better descriptor – leave-no-stone-unturned is this chef’s mantra. So we’re clear on the meaning of wunderkind:wun·der·kind ˈwo͝ondərˌkind/ noun: wunderkind; plural noun: wunderkinds; plural noun: wunderkinder A person

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Park Avenue — Stanton, California’s Retro Anomaly

  • June 17, 2014
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

Where exactly is Stanton, Californa? It’s between the 5 and the 22 freeways in Orange County. Does that help? More specifically, Stanton is a city located in western Orange County, California. The population was 38,186 at the 2010 census, up from 37,403 at the 2000 census. The City was incorporated in 1956. Stanton is bounded by Cypress on

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Chefs Coast-to-Coast — Featuring Sanford D’Amato, author of Good Stock — Life on a Low Simmer

  • June 17, 2014
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

A very special chef, and a very special person, writes a very special book — Good Stock: Life on a Low Simmer — that would be Sanford D’Amato of course. His new book Good Stock: Life on a Low Simmer is an extension and representation of all that Sandy D’Amato

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Cuisine Niçoise — sun-kissed cooking from the French Riviera

  • December 15, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

Author, Hillary Davis, making her home on the French Riviera for 11 years (specifically in the village of Bar-sur-Loup), is the perfect person to bring us the knowledge and conviviality of the Niçoise culture and style of cooking in Nice, France and its surrounding countryside — healthy, fresh, and local. I

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One Part Chef + One Part Kitchen + One Part Product = Surfas Culinary District

  • December 15, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

SURFAS CULINARY DISTRICT, a restaurant and chef supply house that has been at the forefront of equipment and product innovation — anticipating the massive changes to the professional chef’s kitchen with its inescapable focus on the science of cooking — by honing in on innovative equipment, products, and techniques. There

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Celebrate Brunching at Eventide Oyster Co.— Portland, Maine

  • December 4, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

shout out to all of you who celebrate brunching! Eventide Oyster Co. in Portland, Maine serves brunch on Sundays and Mondays from 11 to 3. Everything here from delicious standbys like lobster benedict, and one of the weekly specials might happen to be boiled egg with lardo and Parmesan. The rest

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Smile and Say Cheese

  • May 11, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

Holly cow, holly goat, and so on and so forth. The options in the cheese case at Surfas Culinary District’s new flagship store in Costa Mesa are my fervent hopes fulfilled. From the very difficult to find Hooks 10 year cheddar from Wisconsin to the Brillat Savarin from France, and Gouda Honeybee Goat from Holland,  it’s difficult to

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Chefs Coast-to-Coast – Featuring David Guas, Executive Chef, Bayou Bakery — Arlington, Virginia

  • May 10, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

Bee Obsessive — Chef David Guas rolls out his love of honey and parts with the hibiscus-ginger-honey ice tea formula!  David Guas is chef and owner of Bayou Bakery and DamGoodSweet Consulting Group in Arlington, Virginia. He is the author of the cookbook DamGoodSweet:Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth New Orleans

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E+O
 Food and Drink
 — New Restaurant, Mount Prospect, Illinois

  • February 28, 2013
  • by Dawn Blume Hawkes

E+O Restaurant Design: evokes a lifestyle feeling that is upscale, of the times, yet approachable. E+O Menu: Chef partner Rodelio Aglibot’s fare is fresh and handmade playing on the connection to the earth and ocean’s wholesome food and natural ingredients.  eofoodanddrink.com

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  • Chefs Coast-to-Coast — Featuring Elliot Cunniff, Chef de Cuisine, Soho Grand Hotel, New York City
  • Park Avenue — Stanton, California’s Retro Anomaly
  • Chefs Coast-to-Coast — Featuring Sanford D’Amato, author of Good Stock — Life on a Low Simmer
  • Cuisine Niçoise — sun-kissed cooking from the French Riviera

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