Koren Grieveson, chef de cuisine at Avec in Chicago, has really hit her stride in the last few years. Named a Restaurant Hospitality Rising Star in 2004,...More
Laurent Manrique seems pretty serene for a man keeping so many balls aloft at once. Executive chef at San Francisco's award-laden seafood mecca, Aqua,...More
He was studying engineering in his hometown of Hoboken, NJ, when the cooking bug hit, and it wasn't too much later that self-taught Carlos Fernandez found...More
Dont tell Jean-Robert de Cavel you cant make it big in medium-sized market. The 46-year-old native of Roubaix, France, came to the U.S. at age 26 to be...More
Rare indeed is the pastry chef who ascends to celebrity status. Rarer still is the pastry chef who becomes chef/owner of a nationally acclaimed restaurant....More
Her first two restaurants were located in her native Indianapolis, but Susan Goss really hit her stride when she and husband/GM/wine guru Drew moved to...More
He's spent his entire life in the Midwest, yet Chicago native Todd Stein has incorporated international influences into his cuisine wherever his career...More
Born in Bedford, England, and having spent much of his professional life in Los Angeles, Robert Gadsby lives today in Houston, where he's executive chef...More
WHAT'S CHILLIN: Vitasoy Soy Milk Organic Orange Juice Dom Perignon Rose 1995 vintage Fresh Spanish Mackerel Fillet School Yard Sugar Bush Maple Syrup...More
ON A PLATTER: SeamlessWeb cofounders Jason Finger (l.) and Paul Applebaum. Although venture capitalists who invested $80 million in now-defunct Food.com...More
