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Episode 128: Tribute to Dorothy Cann Hamilton
Chef's Story - January 02, 2017 20:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThanks for listening to and supporting Chef's Story over the years. As many of you know, on September 16, 2016 we lost our dear friend and host of Chef's Story, Dorothy Cann Hamilton. She, among many things, was one of the most respected culinary leaders in the world. Dorothy founded the French ...
Episode 127: Michael Coury
Chef's Story - September 07, 2016 16:51 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef's Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton sits down with Chef Michael Coury, executive chef of OTG Management, a hospitality group that operates more than 200 restaurants and retail concepts in 10 airports across North America. While its competitors often focus on attracting licens...
Episode 126: Ignacio Mattos
Chef's Story - August 24, 2016 16:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef's Story, Dorothy Hamilton sits down with Chef Ignacio Mattos. The episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the International Culinary Center. Born in Uruguay and mentored by South American grilling master Francis Mallman as well as Slow Food legend Alice Wate...
Episode 125: Douglas Keane
Chef's Story - August 10, 2016 17:03 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef's Story, ICC president Erik Murnighan interviews Chef Douglas Keane. Douglas Keane's interest in cooking developed as a young boy helping his mother in their Michigan kitchen. His desire to get a date in high-school, however, led him to enroll in a culinary class, where he sco...
Episode 124: Ed Hardy
Chef's Story - August 03, 2016 16:39 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef’s Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton sits down with Ed Hardy, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute and one of Washington D.C.'s top ten chefs to watch in 2016, according to UpOut. Ed tells us all about his upbringing in Richmond, Virginia and the path that lead him to fo...
Episode 123: CJ Reycraft
Chef's Story - July 27, 2016 16:37 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef's Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton sits down with CJ Reycraft, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute and Chef/Managing Partner of Amuse, where classic French cuisine gets a modern update. Westfield has become one of three American chefs -- and the first ever from New Je...
Episode 122: Eric Ripert LIVE
Chef's Story - July 20, 2016 17:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week's very special episode of Chef's Story features an interview with the inimitable Eric Ripert! In addition to his tenure at the world-renowned Le Bernardin, Chef Ripert has recently published the memoir 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line, which Anthony Bourdain hailed ...
Episode 121: Jonathan Gushue
Chef's Story - June 29, 2016 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 66 ratingsOn this week's episode of Chef's Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton speaks with Jonathan Gushue. After making a name for himself with award-winning menus, renowned chef Jonathan Gushue traded in fine dining for a wood-fired grill. In December 2015, he opened his first restaurant, The Berlin in K...
Episode 120: Chef Wojciech Modest Amaro
Chef's Story - June 22, 2016 20:30 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef's Story, Dorothy Cann Hamilton interviews Chef Wojciech Modest Amaro. In 2014, his Warsaw restaurant Atelier Amaro was awarded a Michelin Star for the second year in a row, thus becoming the only Polish restaurant to boast such an accomplishment. He is the author of two books: ...
Episode 119: Trae Basore
Chef's Story - June 15, 2016 16:19 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsToday's Chef's Story is broadcast from the International Culinary Center in downtown Manhattan! The executive chef of Pearl & Ash, Trae Basore, joins us to talk about his upbringing in the hometown of Walmart – "it still had a very much small town feel to it" – and the main inspiration for his c...
Episode 118: Tom Douglas
Chef's Story - June 08, 2016 17:29 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsOn this week's episode of Chef's Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton speaks with Chef Tom Douglas. Tom Douglas is an executive chef, restaurateur, author, and radio talk show host. He is known for winning the 1994 James Beard Award for Best Northwest Chef. On May 7, 2012, he won the James Beard A...
Episode 117: Chris Himmel
Chef's Story - May 04, 2016 17:31 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef's Story, we profile Chris Himmel, Executive Vice President of Business Development for the Himmel Hospitality Group. The Himmel family owns and operates three of Boston/Cambridge’s most successful and respected restaurants: Grill 23 & Bar, Harvest Restaurant and Post 390 Res...
Episode 116: Billy Allin
Chef's Story - April 20, 2016 16:46 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsBilly Allin was born in New York and grew up in Greenwood, South Carolina. His professional culinary career began at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, where he graduated with honors. During his culinary program, Billy spent, first, a couple days a week, then almost every evening...
Episode 115: Hiroko Shimbo
Chef's Story - April 13, 2016 15:15 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsHiroko Shimbo is an authority on Japanese cuisine who has earned world-wide recognition. She is a chef-instructor at respected culinary schools, a consulting chef to diverse food service industries and a cookbook author based in the United States since 1999. Her associates and clients comprise ...
Episode 114: Mark Welker
Chef's Story - April 06, 2016 16:10 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsOn this week's episode of Chef's Story, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton speaks with Mark Welker, Executive Pastry Chef of Eleven Madison Park and NoMad in New York City. After graduating from the International Culinary Center, Welker started working at Eleven Madison Park as a line cook, and, under ...
Episode 113: J. Kenji López-Alt
Chef's Story - March 23, 2016 16:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsOn this week's episode of Chef's Story, guest host Erik Murnighan, president of the International Culinary Center, interviews J. Kenji López-Alt, the Managing Culinary Director of Serious Eats, and author of the James Beard Award-nominated column The Food Lab, where he unravels the science of...
Episode 112: Steven Jenkins
Chef's Story - March 16, 2016 21:20 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsOn this week's episode of Chef's Story, Dorothy Cann Hamilton speaks with Steven Jenkins of Fairway Markets. Jenkins is credited with having introduced countless cheeses and foodstuffs to New Yorkers (and subsequently, the rest of the United States), and continues to generate remarkable publicit...
Episode 111: David Waltuck
Chef's Story - March 09, 2016 21:32 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsOn this week’s episode of Chef’s Story, Dorothy Cann Hamilton speaks with David Waltuck, who opened the restaurant Élan with business partner George Stinson in 2014. Élan will be closing its doors at the end of this month. Previously, Waltuck was the chef at Chanterelle, which opened in 1979 in ...
Episode 110: Rob Bleifer
Chef's Story - February 10, 2016 18:30 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsTune in for a brand new episode of Chef’s Story as Dorothy Cann Hamilton speaks with Chef Rob Bleifer. As The Food Network’s Executive Chef, he talks his intriguing culinary journey, the rise of food television, plus thoughts on recently being named the International Culinary Center ’s Adjunct ...
Episode 109: Gabe McMackin
Chef's Story - February 03, 2016 17:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsTune in for a brand new episode of Chef’s Story as host Dorothy Cann Hamilton is in conversation with Chef Gabe McMackin. Gabe is the Chef and Owner of the Finch. He has 20 years experience cooking in and around New England. He spent time at restaurants like Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Gramercy Ta...
Episode 108: David Burke
Chef's Story - January 27, 2016 17:55 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsTune in for a brand new episode of Chef’s Story , as host Dorothy Cann Hamilton sits down with none other than David Burke. Burke graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, and soon thereafter traveled to France where he completed several stages with notable chefs such as Pierre Troisgro...
Episode 107: Tim & Nancy Cushman
Chef's Story - January 06, 2016 18:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsChef’s Story is back for another great season as host Dorothy Cann Hamilton is in conversation with Tim and Nancy Cushman. A Boston native, Chef Tim Cushman earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz & Classical Guitar from Berklee School of Music in Boston, then moved to California in the early 1980’s...
Episode 106: Kirsten and Mandy Dixon
Chef's Story - November 25, 2015 17:58 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on _ Chef’s Story _, host Dorothy Cann Hamilton sits down with Chefs Kirsten Dixon and Mandy Dixon of the Tutka Bay Lodge and Winterlake Lodge located in Alaska. Kirsten has been cooking in the backcountry of Alaska for more than twenty years. She is a passionate culinary student, edu...
Episode 105: Ming Tsai
Chef's Story - October 21, 2015 16:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsMing’s love of cooking was forged in his early years. Ming was raised in Dayton, Ohio, where he spent hours cooking alongside his mother and father at Mandarin Kitchen, the family-owned restaurant. His experience also taught him about restaurant operations and the art of making customers happy. ...
Episode 104: Sara Jenkins
Chef's Story - October 14, 2015 16:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe daughter of a foreign correspondent and a food writer, Sara Jenkins grew up all over the Mediterranean, eating her way through its cultures and learning to cook. She began her kitchen under with Todd English at Figs in Boston, then went on to work as a chef in Florence and in the Tuscan coun...
Episode 103: Evan Hanczor & George Weld
Chef's Story - August 05, 2015 15:54 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe idea of cooking as a career might have come to Evan Hanczor unconsciously. Evan spent summers strawberry picking and cooking with his family in Florida, and went to college at Tulane, in its gastronomically rich New Orleans setting. By the time he graduated and moved to Connecticut, Evan kne...
Episode 102: Cathy Whims
Chef's Story - July 22, 2015 15:42 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef’s Story, tune in as Dorothy Cann Hamilton finds that it’s not the awards or the notoriety that fuels the fire for Chef/Restaurateur Cathy Whims. It’s the quest to offer historically-based, authentic dishes that celebrate a sense of place and a local producer’s passion that keep...
Episode 101: Fox Bros Bar
Chef's Story - July 01, 2015 15:57 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on A Chef’s Story, Dorothy Cann Hamilton is Joined by Jonathan and Justin Fox, owners of Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q in Atlanta. After growing up with Texas barbecue, the Fox brothers were underwhelmed by the Atlantan barbecue after moving there in 1998. So they decided to take matters into thei...
Episode 100: Paul Bartolotta
Chef's Story - June 17, 2015 15:59 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week’s featured guest on Chef’s Story is Paul Bartolotta. In 1980, Paul graduated from the Restaurant and Hotel Management Program at Milwaukee Area Technical College. His cultural education began with New York restaurateur, Tony May, owner at the time of the Rainbow Room and founder of Gru...
Episode 99: Bryce Shuman
Chef's Story - June 10, 2015 16:52 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThis week on Chef’s Story host Dorothy Cann Hamilton interviews one of the new living legends of New York chefs, Bryce Shuman. Bryce tells us about his life, when he lived in the arctic, traveled to San Francisco for culinary school, and how he came to his restaurant Betony. This program was bro...
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