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Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Ori Menashe (Bestia)

Childhood bode well for Ori Menashe’s culinary development. The up-and-coming chef, who was born in Los Angeles, raised in Israel, and came of age with Gino Angelini restaurants like Angelini Osteria, first started eating...
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Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Eric Greenspan (The Foundry on Melrose, The Roof on Wilshire, Étage + Greenspan’s Grilled Cheese)

Eric Greenspan is a fellow New Jersey native who spent his formative years in Fullerton and Calabasas, which is where he fronted a punk band called The Green Armpits. He took that punk rock...
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Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire Restaurant)

Nyesha Arrington is SoCal to the core, born in Gardena and raised in the high desert of Lancaster. She attended the Art Institute of Los Angeles before gravitating to L.A.’s Westside. Arrington worked for...
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Cookbook

Interview: chef Nathan Lyon, author of Great Food Starts Fresh

I first met Nathan Lyon in 2010, when he was MC’ing the dineLA Quickfire Challenge at Petrossian. At that point, he’d already achieved success on television: making the final four on the second season...
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Chef New York City

Interview: Chef Michael Psilakis of Kefi, MP Taverna, and Fishtag discusses Getting Started, Hiring Practices, Signature Dishes + More

Native New Yorker and one-time accountant Michael Psilakis first entered a professional kitchen at Café Angelica on Long Island, when his executive chef failed to report to work…absconding with several employees to secretly open...
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Chefs Los Angeles

Interview: Sonoko Sakai (Common Grains)

Freelance food writer, filmmaker and event programmer Sonoko Sakai hails from Tokyo and recently produced Common Grains, a roster of events that spotlight Japanese culture and grain education, on behalf of the Japanese Ministry...
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