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Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Dave Beran (Dialogue Restaurant)

Dave Beran is one of America’s most accomplished chefs, a 2014 Food & Wine Best New Chef awardee and a man who continues to rack up national accolades. The upstate New York native entered...
Chef Orange County

Interview: chef Ryan Adams (Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Parallel Pizzeria + Three Seventy Common)

Chef Ryan Adams has been a driving force in the Orange County culinary community for years. He attended California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and worked for restaurants like One Market and Stars before...
Chef Australia

Interview: chef Ben Shewry (Attica)

Ben Shewry grew up in North Taranaki on New Zealand’s North Island, but has become synonymous with Australian cuisine. At Attica, the Melbourne restaurant that currently ranks #32 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants,...
Chef Atlanta

Interview: chef Hugh Acheson (5&10, The National + Empire State South)

You may know chef Hugh Acheson from his stints as a “Top Chef” judge or as a “Top Chef Masters” competitor. The 2002 Food & Wine “Best New Chef” and 2012 James Beard Award...
Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Dominique Ansel (189 by Dominique Ansel)

Chef Dominique Ansel is synonymous with the Cronut®, but you don’t earn the 2014 James Beard Award for “Outstanding Pastry Chef” and get named the 2017 “World’s Best Pastry Chef” by being a one-hit...
Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Miles Thompson (Michael’s Santa Monica)

Nobody can say that Miles Thompson’s trajectory has ever hit a plateau. In 2014, Star Chefs named him a Los Angeles Rising Star. This fall, Jeff Gordinier honored Thompson as Esquire magazine’s “Rising Star...