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Daniel Eddy
Daniel Eddy began his culinary career in 2004. After 4 years of cooking in NYC, Eddy decided to travel, ultimately landing in Paris in 2009. There he had a chance to work with Daniel Rose (Le Cou Cou/Starr Restaurant) at his first acclaimed restaurant, Spring. After three years at Spring, Daniel r...
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Jamie Bissonnette
Jamie Bissonnette is the James Beard Award-winning chef and partner of Boston favorites Toro, a Barcelona-style tapas bar, Coppa, an Italian enoteca in the South End and Little Donkey, in Cambridge, MA. Bissonnette was awarded the inaugural People’s Choice: Best New Chef award by Food & Wine...
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David Bazirgan
Bazirgan built quite a bit of buzz for himself on the West Coast, where he helmed kitchens at San Francisco’s Fifth Floor and Dirty Habit, so much in fact, he was named one of Eater’s “Hottest Chefs in America” when his Fifth Floor menu was placed on diner’s definite to-do list. Baz...
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Chris Fischer
Chris Fischer is a chef, farmer, TV host and food writer who grew up on Martha’s Vineyard. His 2016 book The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook won a James Beard Award and his Food Network cooking show Amy Schumer Learns to Cook was nominated for an Emmy in 2020. ...
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Jessica B. Harris
Jessica B. Harris is the author of twelve critically acclaimed books documenting the foods and foodways of the African Diaspora (see below). A culinary historian, she has lectured on African-American foodways at The Museum of Natural History in New York City, The California Academy of Sciences in Sa...
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Jan Buhrman
Jan Buhrman, M.S. Ed., is the founder and owner of the award winning full service catering company, The Kitchen Porch, on Martha’s Vineyard. Jan has become a food advocate and authority on local sourcing and sustainable agriculture. The Kitchen Porch organizes large non profit events, has catere...
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Tamika Francis
Tamika R. Francis is a curious generalist, currently working as a public health practitioner by day, and moonlights a food enthusiast by night. She has a strong passion for the outdoors, farming, and global south food traditions. This love came from her family’s long lineage in farming and food. H...
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Karen Akunowitz
Karen Akunowicz is the 2018 James Beard Foundation Award winner for Best Chef: Northeast and the 2020 James Beard Award finalist for Best New Restaurant. She is the Chef/Owner of Fox & the Knife enoteca in South Boston, recently named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Restaurants in America ...
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Mark Gaier
Mark Gaier grew up in a big family near Dayton, Ohio. His mother, a homemaker, was a wonderful cook who inspired Mark to begin cooking and even baking bread by the time he was fourteen. Later, as a young man working in publishing in Blue Hill, Maine, his favorite work was putting on the dinner parti...
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Clark Frasier
Clark Frasier grew up in fresh produce heaven. His family lived in Carmel, California, where vegetables and fruit were available all year round. He remembers picnics in the Napa Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains and fresh fried artichoke stands along the road. But it wasn’t until he went to Chin...
