Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
The Chef Stalker Stalks Her Chef
I did not exactly cheat to get a day-in-the-kitchen with
Norman Van Aken, but I will admit to some subterfuge. And because my husband had to miss the SoFAB (Southern
Food & Beverage Museum) event where this was auctioned, I had carte blanch
to bid on this however I wanted. In my
defense, while I didn’t give anyone else a chance to win this lot, I did make
certain that SoFAB was richly rewarded.
Norman is one of my true culinary heroes. And while I admit to having more than a few
culinary heroes (I am—after all--@thechefstalker) Norman stands out even within
this group. Award winner (Best Chef
Southeast by the James Beard Foundation among many other honors), fabulous chef
(foie gras French toast), great mentor to the culinary world (Charlie Trotter
at the beginning of Chef Trotter’s career, and the entire class of the Miami
Culinary Institute nowadays), wonderful writer (not just cookbooks but book-books, his newest being My Key West Kitchen), and one of my best partners in
promoting Florida foods and foodways.
And if a day could make me more chef-stalkerish than I
already was, our day with Norman did it. A description of the day in the next post.
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