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Gavin Kaysen
Gavin Kaysen has been chef de cuisine in New York, at chef Daniel Boulud’s Café Boulud, where the James Beard Foundation selected him as Best Rising Chef of 2007. He’s cooked in London (at L’Escargot) and Lausanne, Switzerland (L’Auberge de Lavaux). And when he manned the stoves at El Bizco...
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
From Brazil to Bora Bora, China and Japan to Paris and New York, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s culinary reach is far, wide, and with a standard of excellence that has made him one of the world’s finest and most enterprising chefs. Beginning with New York bistro Jo Jo, in 1991, Vong, in 1995, ...
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Jeremiah Tower
It would be difficult to overstate the importance that chef Jeremiah Tower has had on American cooking. He’s one of the giants, a chef who carved a path so innovative and so important into American culinary life that today’s chefs still follow it without perhaps even knowing about Tower himself...
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Marc Murphy
Chef Marc Murphy had an education in European cuisine from an early age—as a child of a diplomat, he was raised in Milan, Paris, Villefranche, Washington DC, Rome, and Genoa. This citizen of the world has called New York City home for many years, but his Landmarc restaurants, in Tribeca and the on...
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Dominique Crenn
Chef-owner of San Francisco’s two-Michelin-star Atelier Crenn—as well as Petit Crenn and Bar Crenn—Dominique is the 2018 James Beard award winner for Best Chef: West. A native of Brittany, France, Dominique found her culinary heart in San Francisco. Before launching a place of her own, she coo...
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Traci Des Jardins
Born in the San Fernando Valley, chef Traci Des Jardins is California to the core. Since 1997, her award-winning San Francisco restaurant Jardinière has been recognized for its devotion to local ingredients and Traci’s deeply flavorful, exquisitely crafted food. Winner of the James Beard award in...
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Manuel Berganza
Another standout alum of star Madrid chef Sergi Arola’s orbit, chef Manuel Berganza has made a mission of bringing his own brand of Spanish cooking to the world. After several years with Arola, at the Michelin two-star La Broche and as executive chef at Sergi Arola Gastro, Berganza took on New Yor...
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Ben Bensoussan
When chef Ben Bensoussan, a Frenchman from Marseille, became executive chef at Madrid’s Le Cabrera, one review said, “his traditional tapas with a twist could fool any Madrileño into believing he was a native.” Of course, Bensoussan had lived in Madrid for years before leading Spanish master ...
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Tristan Welch
Within the very upright University Arms Hotel, in Cambridge, there seems to be a bit of mischief afoot, courtesy of chef Tristan Welch and the hotel’s restaurant, Parker’s Tavern. Or at least that’s what the hotel’s website leads you to believe in describing Welch: “Beneath the elegant sur...
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Alex Rushmer
In 2010, chef Alex Rushmer had been finale runner-up on the BBC’s Masterchef series. A year later, he opened his own place, Hole in the Wall, in the village of Little Wilbraham. It grew into an award-winning restaurant that a food critic for the Independent claimed “satisfies four of my abiding ...
