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Emmy Winner, International Acclaimed Journalist, Executive Producer, Food & Travel Lover, and Creator of the Beloved show “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” David Page takes us deep into the world of chefs, restaurateurs, and everything “foodie” from the nationally and internationally awarded to the locally loved on Culinary Characters Unlocked. New episode every Tuesday.
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- 6 days ago41 min
Kyle and Amanda Lussier—he’s the James Beard nominated chef, she runs front of house—on bringing fine dining to a small Minnesota town that’s never seen it before
Kyle and Amanda Lussier spent five years overcoming challenges to open their own restaurant, The Pines. And speaking of challenges, they did it in a small northern Minnesota town where they admit they’ve had to educate the locals about fine dining. But now they’ve developed a devoted following with a menu of not just classics, but also innovative dishes such as “cauliflower three ways” and tempura battered walleye. And less than a year after opening, Kyle received a James Beard Award nomination in the emerging chef category. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago31 min
Chef Melissa Perello on winning a Michelin star, then walking away from fine dining to cook HER way
Mesmerized by the chefs see saw on TV, chef Melissa Perello fell in love with cooking as a child. Her mom still talks about the leg of lamb she made from a cooking show recipe when she was 8 years old! After attending the Culinary Institute of America, she rose through the ranks of fine dining in San Francisco, even winning a Michelin star, before deciding great food could be comfortable, approachable, and casual. And she proves it every day at her own restaurants, Frances and Octavia. She even invented bacon beignets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago35 min
Chefs Jack Gingrich and Chris Weber on taking a legendary farm-to-table restaurant into the future.
Their Washington state restaurant boasts of doing farm to table since 1986 and is credited with helping define Pacific Northwest Cuisine. It even has its own farm, and what they don’t grow there they get from a network of trusted local producers and foragers. When we talked in early Spring their remarkable seasonal tasting menu was spotlighting local specialties ranging from sturgeon to polenta to a Walla Walla sweet onion tart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago43 min
Chef Ana Sortun on introducing Americans to the wonders of Turkish cooking—and no, it isn’t the same as Greek
Chef Ana Sortun knew as a teenager that she wanted to cook. At 16 she decided to move to France for culinary school. It changed her life. But so did another trip many years later, to Turkey, where she found her true culinary passion. At her Boston area restaurants, she is cooking up the dishes she has found in more than 30 trips to Turkey, as well as some other flavors of the Mediterranean. And she’s won a James Beard award as Best Chef Northeast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 18, 202637 min
Chef Spike Gjerde on making less money to feed us better, and why farm to table is “more or less dead”
James Beard Award winning chef and restaurateur Spike Gjerde has totally re-thought the way restaurants ought to be feeding us. He’s obsessed with doing things his way, building a restaurant group to pursue that passion. And by the way, his food is terrific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 11, 202638 min
Chefs Kari Lauritzen and Sonya Sanford on helping Americans turn cooking from a chore to a pleasure
Kari Lauritzen and Sonya Sanford met and became best friends when both were private chefs in Los Angeles. Now they are coaxing non-cooks into the kitchen and teaching home cooks how to make fabulous meals (and enjoy doing it) on their podcast Food Friends. And in this conversation, they offer some great tips for upping anyone’s home cooking game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 4, 202634 min
Chef Travis Herbert on the bold flavors that earned him a James Beard finalist nomination, and the culinary inspiration of his Montana childhood
Chef Travis Herbert began cooking with his grandmother as a child, but it was sharing a chairlift with a chef at a Utah ski resort that got him into the business. Now he’s got two restaurants at the center of a culinary boom in Salt Lake City, serving up bold flavors and unique dishes—like elk osso buco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Jul 28, 202637 min
Chef Star Maye on the path from prison to champion on Chopped
Chef Star Maye has had a remarkable rise through the culinary world. Born in a small Alabama town, this self-described “black, queer single mother” went from a small Alabama town to the U.S. Navy, to prison, where she found a mentor who pointed her to the culinary world, to becoming a celebrated executive chef in Nashville and a champion on the Food Network show Chopped. Her creative southern cooking is groundbreaking, rooted in the concept of food from as close to the soil as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Emmy Winner, International Acclaimed Journalist, Executive Producer, Food & Travel Lover, and Creator of the Beloved show “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” David Page takes us deep into the world of chefs, restaurateurs, and everything “foodie” from the nationally and internationally awarded to the locally loved on Culinary Characters Unlocked. New episode every Tuesday.
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