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Jean-Michel Lorain
The chef-owner of the Côte Saint Jacques restaurant and hotel in Burgundy, Jean-Michel Lorain takes French cooking to the highest level. His grandmother Marie set the stage, turning her family home in Joigny into a restaurant at the end of World War II. Then his father, Michel, took over from Mar...
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Nicolas Isnard
Ask chef Nicolas Isnard of Auberge de la Charme who taught him the most when he was learning to cook, and he cites chef Gilles Goujon. Isnard spent three years working under the three-star French Michelin chef at Auberge du Vieux Puits, in Fontjoncouse. “He can create and transform almost anythin...
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Renee Erickson
Woodinville, Washington, native Renee Erickson calls her collection of six Seattle restaurants Sea Creatures. She’s beguiled by Pacific Northwest seafood—mussels and oysters, clams and sardines—and equally enthused about French, English, and Italian foodways, gleaned from her European travels ...
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Andrew Horton
Playing with live fire is at the heart of chef Andrew Horton’s world in El Prado, New Mexico, just outside Taos. At Common Fire, where Horton is chef de cuisine, everything from a perfectly roasted chicken or a juicy pork chop to charred flatbreads blanketed with house-made Bolognese sauce is trea...
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Chris Maher
When Chef Chris Maher was asked where his passions lie, he answered, “in front of the camera and behind the stove.” That’s because this respected chef, whose Momentitos de la Vida restaurant was a Taos fixture for years (Maher sold it in 2005), is also a longtime actor. And not just a regional...
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Martín Rios
At Santa Fe’s Restaurant Martín, chef-owner Martín Rios calls his cooking style Progressive American because, he says, “it reflects everything I’ve been through in my career.” For Rios, who has been nominated three times for a James Beard Award for Best Chef: Southwest, that includes many,...
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Nadia Sammut
Before chef Nadia Sammut was diagnosed with celiac disease and lactose intolerance, food and cooking were not exactly sources of pleasure for her. But when she got to the root of her problem, after years of being ill, she set out to help others like herself and to cook gourmet food in the process. W...
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Sherry Yard
If you want to know a little bit about chef Sherry Yard, have a look at her two cookbooks, 2007’s Desserts By the Yard: From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills and 2003’s The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts (which won both a James Beard award and Julia Child award). The vo...
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Curtis Stone
Australian chef Curtis Stone became a familiar face in the U.S. back in 2005, when, on TLC’s Take Home Chef he would show up at grocery stores and ask total strangers if they’d like to cook dinner with him as a surprise for their family and friends. A fixture of food television for more than a d...
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Logan’s Garden
Want a home vegetable and fruit garden but don’t know where to start? In Los Angeles, father-and-son duo Jimmy and Logan Williams, of Logan’s Garden, have the answers, from starting seeds to growing plants and designing, installing, and maintaining the garden for you. Based in the Silver Lake ne...
