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It's hard to imagine our current vibrant, multicultural, and ever-evolving restaurant landscape without the contributions of women in the industry, to the point where it can seem strange even to call out such talented chefs based solely on their gender. But success in this profession comes from teamwork, and the Bay Area's history of supporting strong, creative women in the kitchen--as well as trend-shaping culinary visionaries and activists--has laid the groundwork for generations of talented female chefs. (Thank you for the Edible Schoolyard, the White House gardens, the mesclun and goat cheese salads, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Waters\u003c/a>!) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/alice-wheelbarrow560.jpg\" alt=\" Alice Waters at a fundraiser for the Edible Schoolyard Project.\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/alice-wheelbarrow560.jpg 560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/alice-wheelbarrow560-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Waters at a fundraiser for the Edible Schoolyard Project. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In honor of International Women's Day, let's raise a toast to pop-up sellers who make it to brick-and-mortar businesses, like Vanessa Chavez of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cholitalinda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cholita Linda\u003c/a> in Oakland and Veronica Salazar of \u003ca href=\"http://huaracheloco.com/\" target=\"_blank\">El Huarache Loco\u003c/a> in Larkspur Landing. Let's do lunch with Liza Shaw of \u003ca href=\"http://www.merigansubshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Merigan Sub Shop\u003c/a>, who left A16's pizza and pasta behind to break down whole pigs, make her own hot pickles, and keep us in cheesesteaks and meatball subs, to say nothing of her superior vegetarian offerings, including eggplant parm, egg salad, and chickpea-fritter sandwiches so good we can (almost) forget about the porchetta-and-cracklings that's worth walking all the way down to 2nd and Brannan Streets, even when the Giants are out of town. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, we're lining up to check out newcomers like Mexico City's star chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/09/22/chef-gabriela-camaras-cala-brings-coastal-mexican-food-to-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Cámara\u003c/a>, bringing the exciting flavors of her home city to \u003ca href=\"http://www.calarestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cala\u003c/a> in San Francisco. And we're honoring pioneers like the 95-year-old\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/food/features/qa-cecilia-chiang-mandarin-restaurant/\" target=\"_blank\">Cecilia Chiang\u003c/a> who opened the elegant, groundbreaking Mandarin restaurant in 1961, when non-Asian diners typically equated Chinese food with fast, cheap Americanized Cantonese, and ran it, glamorously, for decades. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang.jpg\" alt=\"Cecilia Chiang was recently honored at CAAMFeast 2016. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Chiang was recently honored at \u003ca href=\"http://caamedia.org/blog/2016/03/07/celebrating-three-generations-of-food-and-innovation-at-caamfeast-2016/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFeast\u003c/a> 2016. \u003ccite>(Leanne Koh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We're remembering those whose work continues to influence the way we cook and eat now, from the late \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/12/03/in-memoriam-judy-rodgers-of-zuni-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\">Judy Rodgers\u003c/a> of Zuni Cafe to the unforgettable chef, Chinese scholar, and author \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/05/26/reaching-for-the-moon-at-china-moon-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Tropp\u003c/a>, whose inventive China Moon Cafe, closed in 1996, would be right at home today. Tropp, who died in 2001, was part of a group of eight woman (including Square One chef and cookbook author Joyce Goldstein) who founded the professional organization \u003ca href=\"http://womenchefs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Women Chefs and Restaurateurs\u003c/a> in 1993; WCR, as it's commonly known, remains a valuable resource for women in the industry today. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working in restaurants is never an easy career path, whether you're scraping together the cooks' family meal or making sure payroll gets met. And while it's often the hot young players that get the press, the Bay Area has an impressive roster of women chefs who have successfully sustained long careers, often maintaining a single flagship restaurant for years or even decades while keeping things fresh with new additions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in honor of International Women's Day, here's a brief look at how some of the most notable women chefs in the Bay Area got their starts, what they're cooking and how they're making every day more delicious, while still doing the tough daily work of running restaurants, supporting local farmers and producers, creating jobs, and giving back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107480\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/traci-des-jardins-new-400x335.jpg\" alt=\"Traci des Jardins\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/traci-des-jardins-new-400x335.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/traci-des-jardins-new.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traci des Jardins \u003ccite>(courtesy of Traci des Jardins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Traci des Jardins\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs a former restaurant critic, I can remember the excitement that the young Traci des Jardins brought to Rubicon as its opening chef in 1994. I was far from her only fan; she won a James Beard Rising Star Chef award in 1995 for her work there. In 1997, she left to open the elegant \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jardiniere \u003c/a>in Hayes Valley, a restaurant that's still going strong under her direction, nearly 20 years later. And while she made her name with fine dining, she's equally proud of the five dollar fish tacos at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mijitasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mijita Cocina Mexicana\u003c/a> in the Ferry Building, which highlights the food of her Mexican-Californian heritage. Her menus are also in place at three eateries in the Presidio, including The Commissary, Transit, and Arguello, operated in partnership with the Presidio Trust and Bon Appetit Management Company. She's on the board of directors at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cocina\u003c/a>, the busy incubator for food businesses (with an emphasis on immigrant women) in the Mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/nancyoakes-400x599.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Oakes\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/nancyoakes-400x599.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/nancyoakes.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Oakes \u003ccite>(courtesy of Nancy Oakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Oakes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOakes opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Boulevard\u003c/a> at the foot of Mission Street in 1993; like Jardiniere, it remains a fixture on the fine dining scene, still serving its lively, vibrant California cuisine 23 years later. Oakes earned a James Beard Award for Best Chef: California in 2001; Boulevard won for Outstanding Restaurant in 2012, after eight consecutive nominations in the category. In 2010, Oakes partnered with two Boulevard chefs, Pam Mazzola and Kathy King, to open the contemporary American \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prospect\u003c/a> in SoMa. With writer Laura Weiss, she and Mazzola published \"The Boulevard Cookbook\" with Ten Speed Press in 2005. She is on the board of Meals on Wheels, among many other philanthropic organizations. \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/DominiqueCrenn-choco500.jpg\" alt=\"Dominique Crenn\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107494\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Crenn \u003ccite>(Rien van Rijthoven)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dominique Crenn\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"Poetic Culinaria\" is the well-chosen subtitle for the Michelin double-starred \u003ca href=\"http://www.ateliercrenn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Atelier Crenn\u003c/a>. Dominique Crenn opened this sleek, fog-gray Cow Hollow restaurant in 2011, serving exquisite, cerebral tasting menus, each a poetic meditation on a seasonal moment. Born and raised in France, Crenn has deep roots in the Bay Area, arriving in 1988 and working at the famous Stars restaurant with Jeremiah Tower and Mark Franz, then at Campton Place and 2223 Market, among others. She became Indonesia's first female executive chef at the InterContinental Hotel in Jakarta in 1997, where she worked for a year before returning to California to work in Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and San Francisco again, earning a Michelin star at Luce in the InterContinental Hotel in 2009. A longtime fan of Jessica Boncutter's quirky, well-loved Bar Jules in Hayes Valley, Crenn took over the space in 2015 when Boncutter decided to sell. She opened the Brittany-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.petitcrenn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Petit Crenn\u003c/a>, featuring both a la carte dining and a five-course tasting menu, earning a 3 1/2 star review from the San Francisco Chronicle soon after. Last month, Crenn opened her latest venture, Antoinette Brasserie, a more classic French venue in the recently renovated Claremont Club & Spa in Berkeley; Justin Mauz is the executive chef. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107479\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/tanyaholland.jpg\" alt=\"Tanya Holland\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107479\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya Holland \u003ccite>(courtesy of Tanya Holland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanya Holland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSouthern born, French trained, Tanya Holland is a familiar face to many. The less fortunate may only know her from her many television appearances on the Food Network and the Today Show, among others. But for those lucky enough to live within eating distance of West Oakland, Holland is a frequent sight behind the line at \u003ca href=\"http://brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a>, her 8-year-old breakfast-and-lunch restaurant. (She closed her second Oakland restaurant, B-Side BBQ, a year ago.) Diners may find their way to this stretch of Mandela Parkway for the buttermilk-brined fried chicken, but they stay, from morning to the 3 pm closing time, for the blissfully, buttery-smooth smoked mashed yams, for the fall-off-the-bone pineapple-glazed ribs, the cornmeal waffles and the shrimp and grits. With writer Jan Newberry, Holland published \"Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland,\" with Chronicle Books in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/melissaperello-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Perello\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/melissaperello-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/melissaperello.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Perello \u003ccite>(courtesy of Melissa Perello)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Perello\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMelissa Perello has a clear penchant for creating warm, welcoming neighborhood dining spots. Located in two small storefronts, both in mostly-residential neighborhoods, Perello's restaurants, \u003ca href=\"http://www.frances-sf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Frances\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.octavia-sf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Octavia\u003c/a> both offer a fine dining chef's professionalism and attention to detail, but without formality or fuss. Perello got her start in San Francisco working in the kitchen at Aqua, followed by Charles Nob Hill, where she worked her way up to executive chef. She came on as executive chef at Fifth Floor, which gained a Michelin star under her direction, before leaving in 2007 to start planning for Frances, the Castro small-plates restaurant that she opened in 2009. She added Octavia last year, taking over the lower Pac Heights space previously occupied by Baker and Banker, Quince, and before that, The Meetinghouse (run by another woman chef, Joanne Karlinsky). Octavia's menu is a little bit Italian (ricotta \"malfatti\" dumplings with chard), a little bit French (shellfish bouillabaisse) and very West Coast (little gems salad with Dungeness crab and charred mandarin oranges). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107491\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti Mistry\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preeti Mistry \u003ccite>(courtesy of Juhu Beach Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preeti Mistry\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMistry has a distinctly 21st-century resume: training in London, competing on \"Top Chef,\" a grueling stint as an executive chef at Google HQ, a popular pop-up that became the Indian street-food-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.juhubeachclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a> in Oakland's Temescal district. Born in London but raised in the Midwest, Mistry aimed to recreate the delectable, beachside snacks she remembered from family trips to Mumbai, filtered through her own American sensibility. Thus, the popular \"Desi Jacks,\" her spice-fragrant take on Cracker Jacks, and the five different pavs, a slider-like sandwich on a soft, sweet bun, that come with fillings like the \"pork vindalated\" in a vindaloo barbecue sauce, and the vegetarian \"sloppy lil'p\". Mistry recently travelled to Hong Kong to open a second outpost, Juhu Beach Club HK. \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Kirnon\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Kirnon \u003ccite>(courtesy of Sarah Kirnon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Kirnon\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhen Sarah Kirnon left the Front Porch for the East Bay, the Mission's loss was Oakland's gain. (She'd started at Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, just a few blocks up the street, before landing at Front Porch.) She landed first at Hibiscus in Uptown, then opened her own place, \u003ca href=\"http://www.realmissolliesoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie's\u003c/a>, on Washington Street in Old Oakland in 2012. Sure, there's the herb-seasoned fried chicken everyone loves, made just the way Kirnon's grandmother, the original Miss Ollie, made it. But the Afro-Caribbean cuisine that Kirnon, who was born in Britain but raised in Barbados by her grandparents, is dedicated to go much further than that. She cures her own salt cod for the salt fish and ackee, pickles eggs and vegetables with allspice and sugarcane, serves island vegetables like cassava, scotch bonnet peppers, and christophene (known as chayote in Mexico and mirliton in Louisiana). She hopes to put together a cookbook in the near future, telling stories and capturing the flavors of the islands and the Oakland experience. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A look at some of the Bay Area's most notable women chefs, in honor of International Women's Day. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1457562433,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":1754},"headData":{"title":"Celebrating Bay Area Women Chefs on International Women's Day | KQED","description":"A look at some of the Bay Area's most notable women chefs, in honor of International Women's Day. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Celebrating Bay Area Women Chefs on International Women's Day","datePublished":"2016-03-08T21:05:19.000Z","dateModified":"2016-03-09T22:27:13.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"107423 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=107423","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/03/08/celebrating-bay-area-women-chefs-on-international-womens-day/","disqusTitle":"Celebrating Bay Area Women Chefs on International Women's Day","source":"Chefs","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/chefs/","path":"/bayareabites/107423/celebrating-bay-area-women-chefs-on-international-womens-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Women chefs have long shaped the food scene in the Bay Area. It's hard to imagine our current vibrant, multicultural, and ever-evolving restaurant landscape without the contributions of women in the industry, to the point where it can seem strange even to call out such talented chefs based solely on their gender. But success in this profession comes from teamwork, and the Bay Area's history of supporting strong, creative women in the kitchen--as well as trend-shaping culinary visionaries and activists--has laid the groundwork for generations of talented female chefs. (Thank you for the Edible Schoolyard, the White House gardens, the mesclun and goat cheese salads, \u003ca href=\"http://www.chezpanisse.com/about/alice-waters/\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Waters\u003c/a>!) \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 560px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/alice-wheelbarrow560.jpg\" alt=\" Alice Waters at a fundraiser for the Edible Schoolyard Project.\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107487\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/alice-wheelbarrow560.jpg 560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/alice-wheelbarrow560-400x268.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alice Waters at a fundraiser for the Edible Schoolyard Project. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In honor of International Women's Day, let's raise a toast to pop-up sellers who make it to brick-and-mortar businesses, like Vanessa Chavez of \u003ca href=\"https://www.cholitalinda.com/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cholita Linda\u003c/a> in Oakland and Veronica Salazar of \u003ca href=\"http://huaracheloco.com/\" target=\"_blank\">El Huarache Loco\u003c/a> in Larkspur Landing. Let's do lunch with Liza Shaw of \u003ca href=\"http://www.merigansubshop.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Merigan Sub Shop\u003c/a>, who left A16's pizza and pasta behind to break down whole pigs, make her own hot pickles, and keep us in cheesesteaks and meatball subs, to say nothing of her superior vegetarian offerings, including eggplant parm, egg salad, and chickpea-fritter sandwiches so good we can (almost) forget about the porchetta-and-cracklings that's worth walking all the way down to 2nd and Brannan Streets, even when the Giants are out of town. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, we're lining up to check out newcomers like Mexico City's star chef \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/09/22/chef-gabriela-camaras-cala-brings-coastal-mexican-food-to-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriela Cámara\u003c/a>, bringing the exciting flavors of her home city to \u003ca href=\"http://www.calarestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Cala\u003c/a> in San Francisco. And we're honoring pioneers like the 95-year-old\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/food/features/qa-cecilia-chiang-mandarin-restaurant/\" target=\"_blank\">Cecilia Chiang\u003c/a> who opened the elegant, groundbreaking Mandarin restaurant in 1961, when non-Asian diners typically equated Chinese food with fast, cheap Americanized Cantonese, and ran it, glamorously, for decades. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang.jpg\" alt=\"Cecilia Chiang was recently honored at CAAMFeast 2016. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107475\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/cecilia-chiang-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Chiang was recently honored at \u003ca href=\"http://caamedia.org/blog/2016/03/07/celebrating-three-generations-of-food-and-innovation-at-caamfeast-2016/\" target=\"_blank\">CAAMFeast\u003c/a> 2016. \u003ccite>(Leanne Koh)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We're remembering those whose work continues to influence the way we cook and eat now, from the late \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/12/03/in-memoriam-judy-rodgers-of-zuni-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\">Judy Rodgers\u003c/a> of Zuni Cafe to the unforgettable chef, Chinese scholar, and author \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/05/26/reaching-for-the-moon-at-china-moon-cafe/\" target=\"_blank\">Barbara Tropp\u003c/a>, whose inventive China Moon Cafe, closed in 1996, would be right at home today. Tropp, who died in 2001, was part of a group of eight woman (including Square One chef and cookbook author Joyce Goldstein) who founded the professional organization \u003ca href=\"http://womenchefs.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Women Chefs and Restaurateurs\u003c/a> in 1993; WCR, as it's commonly known, remains a valuable resource for women in the industry today. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working in restaurants is never an easy career path, whether you're scraping together the cooks' family meal or making sure payroll gets met. And while it's often the hot young players that get the press, the Bay Area has an impressive roster of women chefs who have successfully sustained long careers, often maintaining a single flagship restaurant for years or even decades while keeping things fresh with new additions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in honor of International Women's Day, here's a brief look at how some of the most notable women chefs in the Bay Area got their starts, what they're cooking and how they're making every day more delicious, while still doing the tough daily work of running restaurants, supporting local farmers and producers, creating jobs, and giving back. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107480\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/traci-des-jardins-new-400x335.jpg\" alt=\"Traci des Jardins\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/traci-des-jardins-new-400x335.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/traci-des-jardins-new.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traci des Jardins \u003ccite>(courtesy of Traci des Jardins)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Traci des Jardins\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAs a former restaurant critic, I can remember the excitement that the young Traci des Jardins brought to Rubicon as its opening chef in 1994. I was far from her only fan; she won a James Beard Rising Star Chef award in 1995 for her work there. In 1997, she left to open the elegant \u003ca href=\"http://www.jardiniere.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Jardiniere \u003c/a>in Hayes Valley, a restaurant that's still going strong under her direction, nearly 20 years later. And while she made her name with fine dining, she's equally proud of the five dollar fish tacos at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mijitasf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Mijita Cocina Mexicana\u003c/a> in the Ferry Building, which highlights the food of her Mexican-Californian heritage. Her menus are also in place at three eateries in the Presidio, including The Commissary, Transit, and Arguello, operated in partnership with the Presidio Trust and Bon Appetit Management Company. She's on the board of directors at \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">La Cocina\u003c/a>, the busy incubator for food businesses (with an emphasis on immigrant women) in the Mission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107477\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/nancyoakes-400x599.jpg\" alt=\"Nancy Oakes\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/nancyoakes-400x599.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/nancyoakes.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Oakes \u003ccite>(courtesy of Nancy Oakes)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Oakes\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nOakes opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Boulevard\u003c/a> at the foot of Mission Street in 1993; like Jardiniere, it remains a fixture on the fine dining scene, still serving its lively, vibrant California cuisine 23 years later. Oakes earned a James Beard Award for Best Chef: California in 2001; Boulevard won for Outstanding Restaurant in 2012, after eight consecutive nominations in the category. In 2010, Oakes partnered with two Boulevard chefs, Pam Mazzola and Kathy King, to open the contemporary American \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Prospect\u003c/a> in SoMa. With writer Laura Weiss, she and Mazzola published \"The Boulevard Cookbook\" with Ten Speed Press in 2005. She is on the board of Meals on Wheels, among many other philanthropic organizations. \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/DominiqueCrenn-choco500.jpg\" alt=\"Dominique Crenn\" width=\"300\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107494\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominique Crenn \u003ccite>(Rien van Rijthoven)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dominique Crenn\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\"Poetic Culinaria\" is the well-chosen subtitle for the Michelin double-starred \u003ca href=\"http://www.ateliercrenn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Atelier Crenn\u003c/a>. Dominique Crenn opened this sleek, fog-gray Cow Hollow restaurant in 2011, serving exquisite, cerebral tasting menus, each a poetic meditation on a seasonal moment. Born and raised in France, Crenn has deep roots in the Bay Area, arriving in 1988 and working at the famous Stars restaurant with Jeremiah Tower and Mark Franz, then at Campton Place and 2223 Market, among others. She became Indonesia's first female executive chef at the InterContinental Hotel in Jakarta in 1997, where she worked for a year before returning to California to work in Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, and San Francisco again, earning a Michelin star at Luce in the InterContinental Hotel in 2009. A longtime fan of Jessica Boncutter's quirky, well-loved Bar Jules in Hayes Valley, Crenn took over the space in 2015 when Boncutter decided to sell. She opened the Brittany-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.petitcrenn.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Petit Crenn\u003c/a>, featuring both a la carte dining and a five-course tasting menu, earning a 3 1/2 star review from the San Francisco Chronicle soon after. Last month, Crenn opened her latest venture, Antoinette Brasserie, a more classic French venue in the recently renovated Claremont Club & Spa in Berkeley; Justin Mauz is the executive chef. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107479\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/tanyaholland.jpg\" alt=\"Tanya Holland\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107479\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanya Holland \u003ccite>(courtesy of Tanya Holland)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tanya Holland\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSouthern born, French trained, Tanya Holland is a familiar face to many. The less fortunate may only know her from her many television appearances on the Food Network and the Today Show, among others. But for those lucky enough to live within eating distance of West Oakland, Holland is a frequent sight behind the line at \u003ca href=\"http://brownsugarkitchen.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Sugar Kitchen\u003c/a>, her 8-year-old breakfast-and-lunch restaurant. (She closed her second Oakland restaurant, B-Side BBQ, a year ago.) Diners may find their way to this stretch of Mandela Parkway for the buttermilk-brined fried chicken, but they stay, from morning to the 3 pm closing time, for the blissfully, buttery-smooth smoked mashed yams, for the fall-off-the-bone pineapple-glazed ribs, the cornmeal waffles and the shrimp and grits. With writer Jan Newberry, Holland published \"Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland,\" with Chronicle Books in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/melissaperello-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Perello\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107476\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/melissaperello-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/melissaperello.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Perello \u003ccite>(courtesy of Melissa Perello)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Perello\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMelissa Perello has a clear penchant for creating warm, welcoming neighborhood dining spots. Located in two small storefronts, both in mostly-residential neighborhoods, Perello's restaurants, \u003ca href=\"http://www.frances-sf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Frances\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.octavia-sf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Octavia\u003c/a> both offer a fine dining chef's professionalism and attention to detail, but without formality or fuss. Perello got her start in San Francisco working in the kitchen at Aqua, followed by Charles Nob Hill, where she worked her way up to executive chef. She came on as executive chef at Fifth Floor, which gained a Michelin star under her direction, before leaving in 2007 to start planning for Frances, the Castro small-plates restaurant that she opened in 2009. She added Octavia last year, taking over the lower Pac Heights space previously occupied by Baker and Banker, Quince, and before that, The Meetinghouse (run by another woman chef, Joanne Karlinsky). Octavia's menu is a little bit Italian (ricotta \"malfatti\" dumplings with chard), a little bit French (shellfish bouillabaisse) and very West Coast (little gems salad with Dungeness crab and charred mandarin oranges). \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107491\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Preeti Mistry\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107491\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-400x600.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-1440x2160.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-1180x1770.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/PreetiMistryHeadShot-960x1440.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preeti Mistry \u003ccite>(courtesy of Juhu Beach Club)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preeti Mistry\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMistry has a distinctly 21st-century resume: training in London, competing on \"Top Chef,\" a grueling stint as an executive chef at Google HQ, a popular pop-up that became the Indian street-food-inspired \u003ca href=\"http://www.juhubeachclub.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Juhu Beach Club\u003c/a> in Oakland's Temescal district. Born in London but raised in the Midwest, Mistry aimed to recreate the delectable, beachside snacks she remembered from family trips to Mumbai, filtered through her own American sensibility. Thus, the popular \"Desi Jacks,\" her spice-fragrant take on Cracker Jacks, and the five different pavs, a slider-like sandwich on a soft, sweet bun, that come with fillings like the \"pork vindalated\" in a vindaloo barbecue sauce, and the vegetarian \"sloppy lil'p\". Mistry recently travelled to Hong Kong to open a second outpost, Juhu Beach Club HK. \u003cbr clear=\"all\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_107484\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Kirnon\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-107484\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-150x150.jpg 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/03/sarah-kirnon.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Kirnon \u003ccite>(courtesy of Sarah Kirnon)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Kirnon\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nWhen Sarah Kirnon left the Front Porch for the East Bay, the Mission's loss was Oakland's gain. (She'd started at Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, just a few blocks up the street, before landing at Front Porch.) She landed first at Hibiscus in Uptown, then opened her own place, \u003ca href=\"http://www.realmissolliesoakland.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Ollie's\u003c/a>, on Washington Street in Old Oakland in 2012. Sure, there's the herb-seasoned fried chicken everyone loves, made just the way Kirnon's grandmother, the original Miss Ollie, made it. But the Afro-Caribbean cuisine that Kirnon, who was born in Britain but raised in Barbados by her grandparents, is dedicated to go much further than that. She cures her own salt cod for the salt fish and ackee, pickles eggs and vegetables with allspice and sugarcane, serves island vegetables like cassava, scotch bonnet peppers, and christophene (known as chayote in Mexico and mirliton in Louisiana). She hopes to put together a cookbook in the near future, telling stories and capturing the flavors of the islands and the Oakland experience. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/107423/celebrating-bay-area-women-chefs-on-international-womens-day","authors":["5038"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_1763","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_1807"],"tags":["bayareabites_234","bayareabites_8316","bayareabites_12340","bayareabites_4003","bayareabites_10522","bayareabites_15334","bayareabites_8925","bayareabites_1251","bayareabites_15333"],"featImg":"bayareabites_107493","label":"source_bayareabites_107423"},"bayareabites_59441":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_59441","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"59441","score":null,"sort":[1365113091000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"culinary-women-in-their-own-words","title":"Culinary Women, In Their Own Words","publishDate":1365113091,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>In cooking school classes a decade ago in San Francisco, the classes were equally split by gender. Our instructors had decades more cooking time than us, and tended to have more men in the top leadership chef positions. More recently, the men often still nab more \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards\">awards\u003c/a> and titles like Executive Chef. The advent of pop-up restaurants and organizations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina\u003c/a> serve up more opportunities for women who want to work with food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My editor and I wondered what it is like to be a woman in the culinary field \u003cem>right now\u003c/em>. I talked to three Bay Area women: \u003cstrong>Elvia Buendia\u003c/strong> of the newly opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.lalunacupcakes.com/\">La Luna Cupcakes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect Restaurant\u003c/a> Chef and Partner \u003cstrong>Pam Mazzola\u003c/strong>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.strongtablesf.com/\">Strong Table\u003c/a> Owner \u003cstrong>Fontaine McFadden\u003c/strong>. I asked them about their own personal growth as a woman in the food industry, their experiences being female in the culinary profession, whether or not they have female mentors, the \"state of women\" in culinary arts, and what it is like to work with other women in the food industry. Their comments have been edited for length and clarity. Here are their thoughts, in their own words: \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/LaCocina600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/LaCocina600.jpg\" alt=\"Elvia Buendia. Photo courtesy of Eric Wolfinger \" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59461\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvia Buendia. Photo courtesy of Eric Wolfinger\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a woman, I have received so much support from local organizations like CEO Women, a nonprofit based in Oakland that no longer exists, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina\u003c/a>, the incubator program based in San Francisco. Both programs target and assist entrepreneur women, like myself, to succeed in the world of business. Before participating in CEO Women, I had no idea how to do a business plan, in fact I did not even know what that was or its importance! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My passion for pastries and baking pushed me to pursue my dream in opening my own cupcake shop despite physical struggles such as English as my second language, finances, and even social discouragement. In fact, many people constantly asked me, \"how are you going to open a business if you don't even speak English?\" And I always told them, \"I'm going to sell my cupcakes, not my English skills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a woman has been a blessing and has encouraged me to push myself for my own well-being as well as for the well-being of my family. I wanted to inspire my children, now 15 and 21, to reach for their dreams no matter how many struggles they faced to meet their goals. I think so far I'm doing well with constant support from programs such as La Cocina. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Cocina has been a huge help and I admire the women that have given me words of wisdom regarding food and business, among those included are \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/programsmanager/\">Leticia Landa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/carolamulero\">Carola Mulero\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/development-associate-daniella-sawaya/\">Daniella Sawaya\u003c/a>. Without their help, support, and words of wisdom, I do not know where I would be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, my culinary experience is related to the pleasure I receive when I see people eating and enjoying my cupcakes. I am truly honored to contribute to the culinary and baking world, as I bring a mixture of different flavors from my own cultural background and I look forward to continue my professional development as a baking chef in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pam-Mazzola_Jeannie-OConnor1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pam-Mazzola_Jeannie-OConnor1000.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Mazzola. Photo courtesy of Jeannie O’Connor\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Mazzola. Photo courtesy of Jeannie O’Connor\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I started my career cooking at the Fairmont Hotel in a male-driven kitchen and quickly realized this was not the direction I wanted my career to go in. My entire cooking career has been at single-owner, female chef-directed restaurants. This has allowed me to be very focused in what I do. Having worked with a great partner and true collaborator (\u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/#info-chef\">Nancy Oakes\u003c/a>) for the past 25 years has allowed me to achieve the success that I have. As in any solid relationship, Nancy and I have always shared in the responsibility of what we do together. We have common goals, a similar sensibility in food, and are like-minded in terms of desires for our careers as well as our lives outside of the restaurant. I raised three children while I was cooking at Boulevard, and I don’t think that would have been possible if I had not been working with someone who was sensitive to my family needs and with whom I shared a deep trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen a marked growth in gender equality in the restaurant field. Female chefs share equal status with male chefs. The difference I see is that there is a natural camaraderie between women in this industry, and a real sense of shared responsibility between women who work together.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Fontaine_StrongTable-final.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Fontaine_StrongTable-final.jpg\" alt=\"Fontaine McFadden. Photo courtesy of Fontaine McFadden\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fontaine McFadden. Photo courtesy of Fontaine McFadden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My experience in the culinary world started with my first job out of college working the front of the house at an Italian restaurant on Nantucket Island. I then worked as a florist for years, had a brief and uninspiring job in marketing, dabbled in sustainable building and did some personal organization before finding my way back to food when I enrolled in culinary school. I lucked out with my externship turned job at \u003ca href=\"http://www.handsongourmet.com/\">Hands On Gourmet\u003c/a> where I worked between the kitchen and the office as the Director of Operations for two and a half years. In November of last year I left to start my own business and am now reveling in that best/worst decision ever. I run a prepared Paleo meal service available for pick up out of local Crossfit gyms. It's been crazy and amazing and I have a long way to go, but I'm excited to take on the hard work ahead. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get at the very broad question of what it's like to be a woman in the culinary field I would have to rewind a bit and start with what it was like to grow up with my Dad and big brothers. I have been wholly shaped by them and can't really separate out my experience in the workforce as a woman without first pointing to them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up on an organic farm in Mendocino county and my Dad put me to work, treating me as an equal to my brothers. We all drove tractors, we all did carpentry, we all got up at 5 a.m. and worked in the vineyards until it was too hot to be out in the sun. I built fences, I branded cattle, I installed solar panels and I even did some time in the office. My Dad did an incredible job of instilling a strong work ethic in us all, regardless of the fact they were boys and I was the little girl. And it was the same story with school and sports and social activities; we were all held to an equal standard of excellence. Growing up working, playing and competing with my brothers prepared me to jump into a world dominate by men in charge and taught me how to thrive in that environment. I've been really lucky in that way. My life has not been shaped by discouraging moments or impossible obstacles attributed to my sex alone. I have always seen my abilities and inabilities to be based around who I am as a person and don't believe that something is possible or impossible just because I am a woman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having said that, I realize that this is not the norm and the fight for equal rights among the sexes is not over (what fight against inequity is truly over?). I have encountered plenty of situations where my own view of gender equality is definitely not shared. In those instances I use that ignorance to fuel my motivation beyond what is inherent in me. Maybe by throwing back dirty kitchen talk, or changing a tire in a dress... whatever it is, I like to mess with gender-based assumptions. And in brandishing this viewpoint I have found that I generally end up working harder than I might otherwise, thus becoming more successful and proving my point all the more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, there are many avenues to explore within this broad topic of women in the workplace. One of the more interesting and applicable ones for me, is the struggle for balance between masculine and feminine. I believe that chivalry is not dead. I love having doors opened for me, but I also want to be taken seriously in my career and respected as a member of my community. Luckily, these are not mutually exclusive. As I've gotten older I have found a better balance between my more overt tomboy tendencies and my girly-girl attributes (of which there are many). I used to think that it was one or the other but thankfully I am finding ways for those two to coexist. For me, the most important thing is that I act in a way that is indicative of how I want to be treated. That is all I can control and if I do my best in that area then I'm feelin' good.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What is it like to be a woman in the culinary field today? Mary Ladd interviews Elvia Buendia, Pam Mazzola and Fontaine McFadden. They share their personal stories regarding the role gender has played in their career development.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1365198548,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":1502},"headData":{"title":"Culinary Women, In Their Own Words | KQED","description":"What is it like to be a woman in the culinary field today? Mary Ladd interviews Elvia Buendia, Pam Mazzola and Fontaine McFadden. 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Our instructors had decades more cooking time than us, and tended to have more men in the top leadership chef positions. More recently, the men often still nab more \u003ca href=\"http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards\">awards\u003c/a> and titles like Executive Chef. The advent of pop-up restaurants and organizations like \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina\u003c/a> serve up more opportunities for women who want to work with food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My editor and I wondered what it is like to be a woman in the culinary field \u003cem>right now\u003c/em>. I talked to three Bay Area women: \u003cstrong>Elvia Buendia\u003c/strong> of the newly opened \u003ca href=\"http://www.lalunacupcakes.com/\">La Luna Cupcakes\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect Restaurant\u003c/a> Chef and Partner \u003cstrong>Pam Mazzola\u003c/strong>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.strongtablesf.com/\">Strong Table\u003c/a> Owner \u003cstrong>Fontaine McFadden\u003c/strong>. I asked them about their own personal growth as a woman in the food industry, their experiences being female in the culinary profession, whether or not they have female mentors, the \"state of women\" in culinary arts, and what it is like to work with other women in the food industry. Their comments have been edited for length and clarity. Here are their thoughts, in their own words: \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59461\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/LaCocina600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/LaCocina600.jpg\" alt=\"Elvia Buendia. Photo courtesy of Eric Wolfinger \" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59461\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elvia Buendia. Photo courtesy of Eric Wolfinger\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As a woman, I have received so much support from local organizations like CEO Women, a nonprofit based in Oakland that no longer exists, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/\">La Cocina\u003c/a>, the incubator program based in San Francisco. Both programs target and assist entrepreneur women, like myself, to succeed in the world of business. Before participating in CEO Women, I had no idea how to do a business plan, in fact I did not even know what that was or its importance! \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My passion for pastries and baking pushed me to pursue my dream in opening my own cupcake shop despite physical struggles such as English as my second language, finances, and even social discouragement. In fact, many people constantly asked me, \"how are you going to open a business if you don't even speak English?\" And I always told them, \"I'm going to sell my cupcakes, not my English skills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a woman has been a blessing and has encouraged me to push myself for my own well-being as well as for the well-being of my family. I wanted to inspire my children, now 15 and 21, to reach for their dreams no matter how many struggles they faced to meet their goals. I think so far I'm doing well with constant support from programs such as La Cocina. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Cocina has been a huge help and I admire the women that have given me words of wisdom regarding food and business, among those included are \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/programsmanager/\">Leticia Landa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/carolamulero\">Carola Mulero\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.lacocinasf.org/development-associate-daniella-sawaya/\">Daniella Sawaya\u003c/a>. Without their help, support, and words of wisdom, I do not know where I would be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, my culinary experience is related to the pleasure I receive when I see people eating and enjoying my cupcakes. I am truly honored to contribute to the culinary and baking world, as I bring a mixture of different flavors from my own cultural background and I look forward to continue my professional development as a baking chef in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59462\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pam-Mazzola_Jeannie-OConnor1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Pam-Mazzola_Jeannie-OConnor1000.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Mazzola. Photo courtesy of Jeannie O’Connor\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59462\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pam Mazzola. Photo courtesy of Jeannie O’Connor\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I started my career cooking at the Fairmont Hotel in a male-driven kitchen and quickly realized this was not the direction I wanted my career to go in. My entire cooking career has been at single-owner, female chef-directed restaurants. This has allowed me to be very focused in what I do. Having worked with a great partner and true collaborator (\u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/#info-chef\">Nancy Oakes\u003c/a>) for the past 25 years has allowed me to achieve the success that I have. As in any solid relationship, Nancy and I have always shared in the responsibility of what we do together. We have common goals, a similar sensibility in food, and are like-minded in terms of desires for our careers as well as our lives outside of the restaurant. I raised three children while I was cooking at Boulevard, and I don’t think that would have been possible if I had not been working with someone who was sensitive to my family needs and with whom I shared a deep trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve seen a marked growth in gender equality in the restaurant field. Female chefs share equal status with male chefs. The difference I see is that there is a natural camaraderie between women in this industry, and a real sense of shared responsibility between women who work together.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_59459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Fontaine_StrongTable-final.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/04/Fontaine_StrongTable-final.jpg\" alt=\"Fontaine McFadden. Photo courtesy of Fontaine McFadden\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59459\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fontaine McFadden. Photo courtesy of Fontaine McFadden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My experience in the culinary world started with my first job out of college working the front of the house at an Italian restaurant on Nantucket Island. I then worked as a florist for years, had a brief and uninspiring job in marketing, dabbled in sustainable building and did some personal organization before finding my way back to food when I enrolled in culinary school. I lucked out with my externship turned job at \u003ca href=\"http://www.handsongourmet.com/\">Hands On Gourmet\u003c/a> where I worked between the kitchen and the office as the Director of Operations for two and a half years. In November of last year I left to start my own business and am now reveling in that best/worst decision ever. I run a prepared Paleo meal service available for pick up out of local Crossfit gyms. It's been crazy and amazing and I have a long way to go, but I'm excited to take on the hard work ahead. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get at the very broad question of what it's like to be a woman in the culinary field I would have to rewind a bit and start with what it was like to grow up with my Dad and big brothers. I have been wholly shaped by them and can't really separate out my experience in the workforce as a woman without first pointing to them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I grew up on an organic farm in Mendocino county and my Dad put me to work, treating me as an equal to my brothers. We all drove tractors, we all did carpentry, we all got up at 5 a.m. and worked in the vineyards until it was too hot to be out in the sun. I built fences, I branded cattle, I installed solar panels and I even did some time in the office. My Dad did an incredible job of instilling a strong work ethic in us all, regardless of the fact they were boys and I was the little girl. And it was the same story with school and sports and social activities; we were all held to an equal standard of excellence. Growing up working, playing and competing with my brothers prepared me to jump into a world dominate by men in charge and taught me how to thrive in that environment. I've been really lucky in that way. My life has not been shaped by discouraging moments or impossible obstacles attributed to my sex alone. I have always seen my abilities and inabilities to be based around who I am as a person and don't believe that something is possible or impossible just because I am a woman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having said that, I realize that this is not the norm and the fight for equal rights among the sexes is not over (what fight against inequity is truly over?). I have encountered plenty of situations where my own view of gender equality is definitely not shared. In those instances I use that ignorance to fuel my motivation beyond what is inherent in me. Maybe by throwing back dirty kitchen talk, or changing a tire in a dress... whatever it is, I like to mess with gender-based assumptions. And in brandishing this viewpoint I have found that I generally end up working harder than I might otherwise, thus becoming more successful and proving my point all the more. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obviously, there are many avenues to explore within this broad topic of women in the workplace. One of the more interesting and applicable ones for me, is the struggle for balance between masculine and feminine. I believe that chivalry is not dead. I love having doors opened for me, but I also want to be taken seriously in my career and respected as a member of my community. Luckily, these are not mutually exclusive. As I've gotten older I have found a better balance between my more overt tomboy tendencies and my girly-girl attributes (of which there are many). I used to think that it was one or the other but thankfully I am finding ways for those two to coexist. For me, the most important thing is that I act in a way that is indicative of how I want to be treated. 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Photo: Luca Trovato\" title=\"Bruce Aidells. Photo: Luca Trovato\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Aidells. Photo: Luca Trovato\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aidells.com/our-way/aidells-story\">Bruce Aidells\u003c/a> deserves the title of “King of Meat” after years of crafting delectable meaty goods and founding an eponymous sausage company in 1983. Aidells is widely known as a prolific expert on everything related to sausages, meat, salumi, and charcuterie. His story has ties to the Bay Area, where he has lived for many years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longtime success of Aidells sausages marked a huge shift leading up to the late 1970s, when Americans bought sausage as an occasional breakfast staple with little variety. Now you can find creative sausage links that show Aidells’ culinary craft: chicken apple, artichoke garlic, or even pineapple bacon fly off the shelves at Costco and grocery outlets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, Aidells left the sausage company to pursue recipe consulting and writing work. The Bay Area resident is an award-winning author and has a new hefty cookbook, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780547241418\">\u003cstrong>The Great Meat Cookbook: Everything you Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today's Meat\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $40). Aidells ably breaks down meat cuts and labels, and gives budget-friendly advice on using under appreciated (and usually cheaper) parts. He told me that this may his last book; readers may hope not after diving into creative recipes that include lusty meatloaf, beer broth marinated hanger steak and braised Montana coffee-marinated bison short ribs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aidells got his start as the first chef and co-owner at the popular \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2006/12/24/caramel-cake-the-recipe/\">Poulet\u003c/a> restaurant in Berkeley in 1979 and is married to chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/#info-chef\">Nancy Oakes\u003c/a> of Boulevard and Prospect fame. I caught up with Aidells after a recent book signing event in San Francisco.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Your wife Nancy Oakes is a chef-restaurateur. How does that play out in your home kitchen? Who decides what to cook?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: I’m an ex-chef and she’s a current chef, so we’re not used to people telling us what to do. We do things our own way. Even how a piece of bread gets sliced is debated: I would cut it perpendicular and she’s going to cut on a bias. If we have company over, she’ll plan the meal and I’ll cook the meat. For Thanksgiving, she cooked and I determined when the turkey was done. I carved the turkey, which I do every year. Unfortunately, neither of us know how to cook for small groups so we make a lot of food. Nancy’s the coordinating chef for \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/\">Meals on Wheels\u003c/a> and we usually do three or four auction items where people come to our house or on a boat. We usually raise about $100,000-$200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most passionate about food-wise?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: Besides white truffles? (laughs). With sausage ingredients and spices, there is always something interesting to learn. For this cookbook, I learned a lot about spices. I’m really passionate about \u003ca href=\"http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/maindishes/r/ras_el_hanout_recipe.htm\">ras el hanout\u003c/a> [a Moroccan spice blend]. We have access to one that comes from Morocco via \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacgourmet.com/\">Pacific Gourmet\u003c/a>. You have to grind it yourself and there's something like 20 ingredients in it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been lucky enough to have some of the best Iberian ham and prosciutto. At the book event lunch my wife did at \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect\u003c/a> last Saturday, we did Rosa di Parma, ham, and a breadstick with prosciutto wrapped around it. Also there was escarole and beans with prosciutto. It was really over the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a guy in Iowa with \u003ca href=\"http://laquercia.us/\">La Quercia\u003c/a> who has access to the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamworth_%28pig%29\">Tamworth\u003c/a> breed of pig, one of the few pigs that’s known historically as a bacon pig. Tamworth is a leaner pig but with amazing flavor. He feeds some on acorn at the end. I know him personally. That’s all he talks about is his ham.\u003cbr>\n \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Who are your mentors?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: My mother is a negative mentor, which she hates for me to say. In the 1950s you had an entire cuisine by soup and my mother embraced that. There was Lipton onion soup meatloaf and casseroles with cream of mushroom soup. When I went to college, I asked my mom to send me her recipes. I looked at them and said “Nah.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My roommate had a \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/James-Beard/e/B000APEE8Y/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">James Beard cookbook\u003c/a> that was falling apart and written for home cooks. I got a lot of use out of that one. Then my roommate my senior year got us a subscription to Gourmet. I went off to be a graduate student and the Time Life Foods of the World were around. I cooked through all 35 and learned a tremendous amount. Those books gave you the actual ingredients and let you go find it on your own. That was a great breakthrough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s so cliché but I learned a lot watching \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/food/juliachild/\">Julia Child\u003c/a>: how to hold a knife, and to always tuck my finger. Even if I watch the old shows today, I still learn stuff. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/food/jacquespepin/\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a> La Methode and La Technique taught me. Actual La Methode showed me how to turn a fridge into a sausage smoker. I still have the fridges. They are historical. My wife hates them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been to Italy 30 times and whenever we travel with \u003ca href=\"http://www.faithwillinger.com/\">Faith Willinger\u003c/a>, it’s like you’re family. The Italian recipes I have are the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Vij\">Vikram Vij\u003c/a> is the best Indian restaurateur in North America. His wife is opening a branch in Seattle soon. Vij’s recipes and books are really spot on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the lessons you’ve learned on the way?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: I credit a lot of my success more to relationships, and to treating people in a straightforward and fair way. My style tends to be blunt, where I’m not holding back and always putting my cards on the table. I still have relationships from the first sausage sale I made 30 years ago. That really builds a brand: when people know you care about your product and about who’s eating it. I’d like to think that comes through in the cookbooks as well. I’m trying to help people learn, which I suppose comes from my science and teaching background. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Do you have any favorite Bay Area food/drink spots?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: We do most of our eating in Healdsburg on the weekend. Our favorite place is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmhouseinn.com/restaurant-0/\">Farmhouse\u003c/a>. The chef has become our friend and I think he is the best chef in the county. He usually takes January off and goes to Asia, which shows how serious he is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scopahealdsburg.com/\">Scopa\u003c/a> is another favorite from our friends Ari and Dawnelise. They also own \u003ca href=\"http://campo-fina.com/\">Campo Fina\u003c/a> right around the corner, which has a bocce court. We also go up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.diavolo.org/\">Diavolo\u003c/a> in Geyerserville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We shop at Mexican markets like Lola’s. Some of them have taco stands in the back and they’re pretty good. I like to get Salvadorian food in Santa Rosa -- on Sebastopol Street. The trucks are parked in front of a restaurant and have a covered patio. There’s great tamales and if you spend $10 you’ve bought way too much food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big John’s grocery store and Taylor’s Refresher are both great. My wife’s a huge supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thegardener.com/pages.php?pageid=5\">The Gardener\u003c/a>. I like to say that she single-handedly keeps them in business. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you working on these days? What’s an average workday like? What’s it like writing a cookbook?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: My typical day starts around ten. Around four hours are taken up with email and Facebook. I will respond to messages, which are usually from some sort of media exposure or recipe questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is my last book for sure. (Laughs.) \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Meat-Cookbook-Everything/dp/0547241410/\">The Great Meat Cookbook\u003c/a> was a big book and involved a lot of research and work. It made a tremendous amount of sense to do books when I was in the sausage company and really helped the brand. Now, I don’t know how to measure the success. The actual writing is such a small part of it. There are sales and publicity efforts. I do strongly believe the best selling is done through word of mouth. That’s how I succeeded with sausage. That’s how it works with books. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where I really do the best financially is working with food companies as a consultant. I did some Duroc ham and Vande Rose bacon recipes. I get a little royalty from those. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mary Ladd interviews Bruce Aidells, who remains a leading authority on meat and meat cookery. Aidells describes his work on his latest comprehensive cookbook, and where he likes to go eat in the Bay Area with his chef wife Nancy Oakes. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1355597107,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1457},"headData":{"title":"Everything You Need to Know About Bruce Aidells | KQED","description":"Mary Ladd interviews Bruce Aidells, who remains a leading authority on meat and meat cookery. Aidells describes his work on his latest comprehensive cookbook, and where he likes to go eat in the Bay Area with his chef wife Nancy Oakes. 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Photo: Luca Trovato\" title=\"Bruce Aidells. Photo: Luca Trovato\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52361\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Aidells. Photo: Luca Trovato\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.aidells.com/our-way/aidells-story\">Bruce Aidells\u003c/a> deserves the title of “King of Meat” after years of crafting delectable meaty goods and founding an eponymous sausage company in 1983. Aidells is widely known as a prolific expert on everything related to sausages, meat, salumi, and charcuterie. His story has ties to the Bay Area, where he has lived for many years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longtime success of Aidells sausages marked a huge shift leading up to the late 1970s, when Americans bought sausage as an occasional breakfast staple with little variety. Now you can find creative sausage links that show Aidells’ culinary craft: chicken apple, artichoke garlic, or even pineapple bacon fly off the shelves at Costco and grocery outlets. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2002, Aidells left the sausage company to pursue recipe consulting and writing work. The Bay Area resident is an award-winning author and has a new hefty cookbook, \u003ca href=\"http://www.bookpassage.com/book/9780547241418\">\u003cstrong>The Great Meat Cookbook: Everything you Need to Know to Buy and Cook Today's Meat\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $40). Aidells ably breaks down meat cuts and labels, and gives budget-friendly advice on using under appreciated (and usually cheaper) parts. He told me that this may his last book; readers may hope not after diving into creative recipes that include lusty meatloaf, beer broth marinated hanger steak and braised Montana coffee-marinated bison short ribs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aidells got his start as the first chef and co-owner at the popular \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2006/12/24/caramel-cake-the-recipe/\">Poulet\u003c/a> restaurant in Berkeley in 1979 and is married to chef \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com/#info-chef\">Nancy Oakes\u003c/a> of Boulevard and Prospect fame. I caught up with Aidells after a recent book signing event in San Francisco.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Your wife Nancy Oakes is a chef-restaurateur. How does that play out in your home kitchen? Who decides what to cook?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: I’m an ex-chef and she’s a current chef, so we’re not used to people telling us what to do. We do things our own way. Even how a piece of bread gets sliced is debated: I would cut it perpendicular and she’s going to cut on a bias. If we have company over, she’ll plan the meal and I’ll cook the meat. For Thanksgiving, she cooked and I determined when the turkey was done. I carved the turkey, which I do every year. Unfortunately, neither of us know how to cook for small groups so we make a lot of food. Nancy’s the coordinating chef for \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/\">Meals on Wheels\u003c/a> and we usually do three or four auction items where people come to our house or on a boat. We usually raise about $100,000-$200,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you most passionate about food-wise?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: Besides white truffles? (laughs). With sausage ingredients and spices, there is always something interesting to learn. For this cookbook, I learned a lot about spices. I’m really passionate about \u003ca href=\"http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/maindishes/r/ras_el_hanout_recipe.htm\">ras el hanout\u003c/a> [a Moroccan spice blend]. We have access to one that comes from Morocco via \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacgourmet.com/\">Pacific Gourmet\u003c/a>. You have to grind it yourself and there's something like 20 ingredients in it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been lucky enough to have some of the best Iberian ham and prosciutto. At the book event lunch my wife did at \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect\u003c/a> last Saturday, we did Rosa di Parma, ham, and a breadstick with prosciutto wrapped around it. Also there was escarole and beans with prosciutto. It was really over the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a guy in Iowa with \u003ca href=\"http://laquercia.us/\">La Quercia\u003c/a> who has access to the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamworth_%28pig%29\">Tamworth\u003c/a> breed of pig, one of the few pigs that’s known historically as a bacon pig. Tamworth is a leaner pig but with amazing flavor. He feeds some on acorn at the end. I know him personally. That’s all he talks about is his ham.\u003cbr>\n \u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBay Area Bites: Who are your mentors?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: My mother is a negative mentor, which she hates for me to say. In the 1950s you had an entire cuisine by soup and my mother embraced that. There was Lipton onion soup meatloaf and casseroles with cream of mushroom soup. When I went to college, I asked my mom to send me her recipes. I looked at them and said “Nah.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My roommate had a \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/James-Beard/e/B000APEE8Y/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">James Beard cookbook\u003c/a> that was falling apart and written for home cooks. I got a lot of use out of that one. Then my roommate my senior year got us a subscription to Gourmet. I went off to be a graduate student and the Time Life Foods of the World were around. I cooked through all 35 and learned a tremendous amount. Those books gave you the actual ingredients and let you go find it on your own. That was a great breakthrough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s so cliché but I learned a lot watching \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/food/juliachild/\">Julia Child\u003c/a>: how to hold a knife, and to always tuck my finger. Even if I watch the old shows today, I still learn stuff. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/food/jacquespepin/\">Jacques Pépin\u003c/a> La Methode and La Technique taught me. Actual La Methode showed me how to turn a fridge into a sausage smoker. I still have the fridges. They are historical. My wife hates them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve been to Italy 30 times and whenever we travel with \u003ca href=\"http://www.faithwillinger.com/\">Faith Willinger\u003c/a>, it’s like you’re family. The Italian recipes I have are the best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Vij\">Vikram Vij\u003c/a> is the best Indian restaurateur in North America. His wife is opening a branch in Seattle soon. Vij’s recipes and books are really spot on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are the lessons you’ve learned on the way?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: I credit a lot of my success more to relationships, and to treating people in a straightforward and fair way. My style tends to be blunt, where I’m not holding back and always putting my cards on the table. I still have relationships from the first sausage sale I made 30 years ago. That really builds a brand: when people know you care about your product and about who’s eating it. I’d like to think that comes through in the cookbooks as well. I’m trying to help people learn, which I suppose comes from my science and teaching background. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: Do you have any favorite Bay Area food/drink spots?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: We do most of our eating in Healdsburg on the weekend. Our favorite place is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.farmhouseinn.com/restaurant-0/\">Farmhouse\u003c/a>. The chef has become our friend and I think he is the best chef in the county. He usually takes January off and goes to Asia, which shows how serious he is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scopahealdsburg.com/\">Scopa\u003c/a> is another favorite from our friends Ari and Dawnelise. They also own \u003ca href=\"http://campo-fina.com/\">Campo Fina\u003c/a> right around the corner, which has a bocce court. We also go up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.diavolo.org/\">Diavolo\u003c/a> in Geyerserville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We shop at Mexican markets like Lola’s. Some of them have taco stands in the back and they’re pretty good. I like to get Salvadorian food in Santa Rosa -- on Sebastopol Street. The trucks are parked in front of a restaurant and have a covered patio. There’s great tamales and if you spend $10 you’ve bought way too much food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big John’s grocery store and Taylor’s Refresher are both great. My wife’s a huge supporter of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thegardener.com/pages.php?pageid=5\">The Gardener\u003c/a>. I like to say that she single-handedly keeps them in business. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites: What are you working on these days? What’s an average workday like? What’s it like writing a cookbook?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAidells: My typical day starts around ten. Around four hours are taken up with email and Facebook. I will respond to messages, which are usually from some sort of media exposure or recipe questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is my last book for sure. (Laughs.) \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Meat-Cookbook-Everything/dp/0547241410/\">The Great Meat Cookbook\u003c/a> was a big book and involved a lot of research and work. It made a tremendous amount of sense to do books when I was in the sausage company and really helped the brand. Now, I don’t know how to measure the success. The actual writing is such a small part of it. There are sales and publicity efforts. I do strongly believe the best selling is done through word of mouth. That’s how I succeeded with sausage. That’s how it works with books. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where I really do the best financially is working with food companies as a consultant. I did some Duroc ham and Vande Rose bacon recipes. I get a little royalty from those. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/52344/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bruce-aidells","authors":["5092"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_2254","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_588","bayareabites_1807"],"tags":["bayareabites_409","bayareabites_8655","bayareabites_4002","bayareabites_4003","bayareabites_9243"],"featImg":"bayareabites_52362","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_46148":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_46148","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"46148","score":null,"sort":[1342892114000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chef-profile-maverick%e2%80%99s-emmanel-eng","title":"Chef Profile: Maverick’s Emmanuel Eng","publishDate":1342892114,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/400EngandYouks-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/400EngandYouks-new.jpg\" alt=\"Chefs Emmanuel Eng and Scott Youkilis. photo courtesy of Maverick\" title=\"Chefs Emmanuel Eng and Scott Youkilis. photo courtesy of Maverick\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46156\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chefs Emmanuel Eng and Scott Youkilis. Photo courtesy of Maverick\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a petite-sized spot, yet shows mighty potential. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmaverick.com/\">Maverick restaurant\u003c/a> has spent the last seven years cranking out various forms of American food in the Mission -- at times high-brow and other times with more of a decidedly Southern and comfy bent. Owners Mike Pierce and executive chef Scott Youkilis brought on and promoted Emmanel Eng, 33, as executive chef in recent months. Eng’s artistic eye is clear in the refreshed menu and clean yet playfully creative plating style. He considers Nancy Oakes a big influencer and mentor in his culinary life and talked his way into a weekly stage that quickly led to full-time line cook work at Indigo restaurant. The Noe Valley resident cooked under Oakes at Boulevard, and has had stints at Sons & Daughters, Foreign Cinema, Quince and Aqua. Eng grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. One of the reasons he was drawn to the Bay Area was to work for dot-coms (more on that soon) but cooking, a long-term girlfriend, bicycling and designing high-end bicycles are why he stayed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites\u003c/strong> caught up with Eng via phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you get interested in cooking?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI went to the Rhode Island School of Design so it’s hard to say how one led to the other. In high school I was really into design and art. The correlation was working with my hands, which helped me get into cooking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becoming a cook as a career was more a product of moving to San Francisco. During college I went to Sweden and was a backpacker. I got a job at a cafeteria: washing lettuce, slicing tomatoes, and making things like a 50-pound pile of mashed potatoes. It was not glamorous but it was fun. That put me in the world of food production: mundane food but I had to serve it. I found a lot of satisfaction seeing people enjoy and eat the food and liked having the “Jewish mom/Asian grandma” syndrome of wanting to take care of people. When I moved to San Francisco, I was doing design for a dot-com and was laid off. Since I was always eating at a lot of nice places, a friend said “Why not do a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(cooking)\">stage\u003c/a>?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked into Indigo and said, “I will work for free if you teach me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is your mentor?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNancy Oakes at Boulevard. I still stop by there to check in and see how she’s doing, how things are. That’s where I did most of my development. There’s that classic line cook mentality at other places of work your way up. Then you have that feeling that you’ve seen all you can see. I did that for a long time. When I got to Boulevard, I found it was a place that I really wanted to work, for five years. That’s not common for someone to stick around so long. After five years, it took me that long to say, ok, time for me to move away from line cook and Sous chef and take the leap to be chef de cuisine or open my own place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell us more about doing your own place.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI have thoughts about it all the time. What it’s going to be changes all the time. I wrote the business plan as a concept of what I want. My five year plan is to hopefully be chef-owner of a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a significant other? How did you two meet?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy girlfriend Ann was a server at Boulevard. We didn’t get together until after she quit. We’ve been together five years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your favorite spots for food & drink in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.locandasf.com/\">Locanda\u003c/a>: I was there on Tuesday night. David Chang and a lot of people were there and it was fun. We were all chatting and hanging out. I go there pretty often for the Bucatini. I really love that the bartenders let me sit down and they create something. I may request something light and refreshing and say, \"It was hot in the kitchen today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.koipalace.com/default.htm\">Koi Palace\u003c/a> for dim sum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ritualroasters.com/\">Ritual Roasters\u003c/a> is where I go for coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/403Eng_Ash-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/403Eng_Ash-new.jpg\" alt=\"Burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes.\" title=\"Burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes.\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46157\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes. Photo courtesy of Maverick\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Happy seventh birthday, Maverick. What’s new at the restaurant?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI’ve been using ash [for the dish: burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes]. For our spring version, the dish had corn ash, fiddlehead ferns and ramps. The original idea was to toast cornhusks until they’re nice and golden brown. Then I was going to make a sauce or foam. I hadn’t figured out what I was doing at that point. It smelled amazing so I put in the blender and it tasted like cocoa powder. Not bitter or burnt, and by accident. I was thinking of ash rind -- since there’s that goat cheese with a layer of ash. It makes sense -- in connection with how cheese is made and an ash rind burrata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evolved into a version with beets and figs, which was a combination of how \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/01/07/food-secrets-of-chefrestaurateurwriter-daniel-patterson/\">Daniel Patterson\u003c/a> at Coi took fig leaves and grilled them and turned into an oil. I copied him, because it was amazing. If corn husks burn so well, I wondered if fig leaves would. I knew someone who worked there, and I said “One day I’ll do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/560Eng_HalibutCheek.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/560Eng_HalibutCheek.jpg\" alt=\"halibut cheeks dusted in masa, saffron and zucchini bisque, castelvetrano olive caviar and heirloom tomato relish, bloomsdale spinach, fried zucchini sticks and lemon marigold flowers \" title=\"halibut cheeks dusted in masa, saffron and zucchini bisque, castelvetrano olive caviar and heirloom tomato relish, bloomsdale spinach, fried zucchini sticks and lemon marigold flowers \" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46165\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Halibut cheeks dusted in masa, saffron and zucchini bisque, castelvetrano olive \"caviar\" and heirloom tomato relish, Bloomsdale spinach, fried zucchini sticks and lemon marigold flowers. Photo courtesy of Maverick\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite dishes from the new menu is the halibut cheek dish. Fried chicken is a crowd pleaser and I love it but it’s the least challenging dish on the menu. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things change a lot. I’m working on new dishes: roasted corn and ginger chowder, chicken agnolotti, and stuffed Italian frying peppers with house made fromage blanc. There’ll be a play on steak and eggs for the snack menu. We had a smoked egg, so I’m looking to do shredded beef jerky on top using the American technique of dried beef and then shredding it into a more Asian thing. I grew up eating shredded beef or shredded pork on my congee. It kind of melts and has a crunchy texture. It’s not like dog treat-style beef jerky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your guilty food pleasure?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCrab rangoon. That’s lowbrow American Chinese food. \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mary Ladd profiles Chef Emmanuel Eng, who is the executive chef at Maverick restaurant in the Mission. Eng describes the inspiration and technique to creating food ash for his creative plates of food. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1342901590,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1189},"headData":{"title":"Chef Profile: Maverick’s Emmanuel Eng | KQED","description":"Mary Ladd profiles Chef Emmanuel Eng, who is the executive chef at Maverick restaurant in the Mission. Eng describes the inspiration and technique to creating food ash for his creative plates of food. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Chef Profile: Maverick’s Emmanuel Eng","datePublished":"2012-07-21T17:35:14.000Z","dateModified":"2012-07-21T20:13:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"46148 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=46148","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/07/21/chef-profile-maverick%e2%80%99s-emmanel-eng/","disqusTitle":"Chef Profile: Maverick’s Emmanuel Eng","path":"/bayareabites/46148/chef-profile-maverick%e2%80%99s-emmanel-eng","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/400EngandYouks-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/400EngandYouks-new.jpg\" alt=\"Chefs Emmanuel Eng and Scott Youkilis. photo courtesy of Maverick\" title=\"Chefs Emmanuel Eng and Scott Youkilis. photo courtesy of Maverick\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46156\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Chefs Emmanuel Eng and Scott Youkilis. Photo courtesy of Maverick\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a petite-sized spot, yet shows mighty potential. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfmaverick.com/\">Maverick restaurant\u003c/a> has spent the last seven years cranking out various forms of American food in the Mission -- at times high-brow and other times with more of a decidedly Southern and comfy bent. Owners Mike Pierce and executive chef Scott Youkilis brought on and promoted Emmanel Eng, 33, as executive chef in recent months. Eng’s artistic eye is clear in the refreshed menu and clean yet playfully creative plating style. He considers Nancy Oakes a big influencer and mentor in his culinary life and talked his way into a weekly stage that quickly led to full-time line cook work at Indigo restaurant. The Noe Valley resident cooked under Oakes at Boulevard, and has had stints at Sons & Daughters, Foreign Cinema, Quince and Aqua. Eng grew up in Portland, Oregon and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design. One of the reasons he was drawn to the Bay Area was to work for dot-coms (more on that soon) but cooking, a long-term girlfriend, bicycling and designing high-end bicycles are why he stayed. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Bites\u003c/strong> caught up with Eng via phone interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you get interested in cooking?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI went to the Rhode Island School of Design so it’s hard to say how one led to the other. In high school I was really into design and art. The correlation was working with my hands, which helped me get into cooking. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becoming a cook as a career was more a product of moving to San Francisco. During college I went to Sweden and was a backpacker. I got a job at a cafeteria: washing lettuce, slicing tomatoes, and making things like a 50-pound pile of mashed potatoes. It was not glamorous but it was fun. That put me in the world of food production: mundane food but I had to serve it. I found a lot of satisfaction seeing people enjoy and eat the food and liked having the “Jewish mom/Asian grandma” syndrome of wanting to take care of people. When I moved to San Francisco, I was doing design for a dot-com and was laid off. Since I was always eating at a lot of nice places, a friend said “Why not do a \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage_(cooking)\">stage\u003c/a>?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I walked into Indigo and said, “I will work for free if you teach me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who is your mentor?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nNancy Oakes at Boulevard. I still stop by there to check in and see how she’s doing, how things are. That’s where I did most of my development. There’s that classic line cook mentality at other places of work your way up. Then you have that feeling that you’ve seen all you can see. I did that for a long time. When I got to Boulevard, I found it was a place that I really wanted to work, for five years. That’s not common for someone to stick around so long. After five years, it took me that long to say, ok, time for me to move away from line cook and Sous chef and take the leap to be chef de cuisine or open my own place. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tell us more about doing your own place.\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI have thoughts about it all the time. What it’s going to be changes all the time. I wrote the business plan as a concept of what I want. My five year plan is to hopefully be chef-owner of a place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Do you have a significant other? How did you two meet?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nMy girlfriend Ann was a server at Boulevard. We didn’t get together until after she quit. We’ve been together five years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are your favorite spots for food & drink in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.locandasf.com/\">Locanda\u003c/a>: I was there on Tuesday night. David Chang and a lot of people were there and it was fun. We were all chatting and hanging out. I go there pretty often for the Bucatini. I really love that the bartenders let me sit down and they create something. I may request something light and refreshing and say, \"It was hot in the kitchen today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.koipalace.com/default.htm\">Koi Palace\u003c/a> for dim sum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ritualroasters.com/\">Ritual Roasters\u003c/a> is where I go for coffee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/403Eng_Ash-new.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/403Eng_Ash-new.jpg\" alt=\"Burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes.\" title=\"Burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes.\" width=\"403\" height=\"403\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46157\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes. Photo courtesy of Maverick\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Happy seventh birthday, Maverick. What’s new at the restaurant?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nI’ve been using ash [for the dish: burrata ashed with fig leaf ash, baby beets, Chioggia beet chips, black mission figs, pine nut and pine nut butter, charred fig leaf oil with French breakfast radishes]. For our spring version, the dish had corn ash, fiddlehead ferns and ramps. The original idea was to toast cornhusks until they’re nice and golden brown. Then I was going to make a sauce or foam. I hadn’t figured out what I was doing at that point. It smelled amazing so I put in the blender and it tasted like cocoa powder. Not bitter or burnt, and by accident. I was thinking of ash rind -- since there’s that goat cheese with a layer of ash. It makes sense -- in connection with how cheese is made and an ash rind burrata.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That evolved into a version with beets and figs, which was a combination of how \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/01/07/food-secrets-of-chefrestaurateurwriter-daniel-patterson/\">Daniel Patterson\u003c/a> at Coi took fig leaves and grilled them and turned into an oil. I copied him, because it was amazing. If corn husks burn so well, I wondered if fig leaves would. I knew someone who worked there, and I said “One day I’ll do this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/560Eng_HalibutCheek.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2012/07/560Eng_HalibutCheek.jpg\" alt=\"halibut cheeks dusted in masa, saffron and zucchini bisque, castelvetrano olive caviar and heirloom tomato relish, bloomsdale spinach, fried zucchini sticks and lemon marigold flowers \" title=\"halibut cheeks dusted in masa, saffron and zucchini bisque, castelvetrano olive caviar and heirloom tomato relish, bloomsdale spinach, fried zucchini sticks and lemon marigold flowers \" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46165\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Halibut cheeks dusted in masa, saffron and zucchini bisque, castelvetrano olive \"caviar\" and heirloom tomato relish, Bloomsdale spinach, fried zucchini sticks and lemon marigold flowers. Photo courtesy of Maverick\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of my favorite dishes from the new menu is the halibut cheek dish. Fried chicken is a crowd pleaser and I love it but it’s the least challenging dish on the menu. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things change a lot. I’m working on new dishes: roasted corn and ginger chowder, chicken agnolotti, and stuffed Italian frying peppers with house made fromage blanc. There’ll be a play on steak and eggs for the snack menu. We had a smoked egg, so I’m looking to do shredded beef jerky on top using the American technique of dried beef and then shredding it into a more Asian thing. I grew up eating shredded beef or shredded pork on my congee. It kind of melts and has a crunchy texture. It’s not like dog treat-style beef jerky. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is your guilty food pleasure?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCrab rangoon. That’s lowbrow American Chinese food. \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/46148/chef-profile-maverick%e2%80%99s-emmanel-eng","authors":["5092"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_2695","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1146","bayareabites_1875","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_90"],"tags":["bayareabites_10615","bayareabites_409","bayareabites_3998","bayareabites_3999","bayareabites_10613","bayareabites_171","bayareabites_4003","bayareabites_10614"],"featImg":"bayareabites_46156","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_31183":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_31183","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"31183","score":null,"sort":[1312910728000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-chefs-2011-women-pioneer-chefs","title":"SF Chefs 2011: Women Pioneer Chefs","publishDate":1312910728,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/08/sfchefs2011.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/08/sfchefs2011.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, Nancy Oakes\" title=\"Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, Nancy Oakes\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31214\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, Nancy Oakes. Photos: courtesy of SF Chefs 2011\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of celebrity-chef star power was on display last week at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchefs2011.com\">SF Chefs 2011\u003c/a>. But on Sunday morning, when a lot of event-goers were still sleeping off the effects of Saturday night's tasting-tent cocktails, Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, and Nancy Oakes, three of the city's true pioneer chefs, were chatting in front of a small but attentive audience, discussing the challenges, achievements, and changes happening then and now in San Francisco's restaurant scene. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some background, for you newcomers: Nancy Oakes is the executive chef of \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com\">Boulevard\u003c/a>, the brasserie-style New American restaurant at the foot of Mission Street that's 18 years old and still garnering awards and a swarm of reservations every night. Before that, she was the chef/owner of L'Avenue, an acclaimed 50-seat bistro. She also heads the team at \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect\u003c/a> in Soma, which opened last year to rave reviews. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/05/25/at-the-mandarin-cecilia-chiang-changed-chinese-food/\">Cecilia Chiang\u003c/a>, now in her 90s, brought the fiery flavors of Hunan and Szechuan cuisine to a city dominated by Cantonese cooking. She opened the 300-seat Mandarin in Ghirardelli Square in 1968, making it a destination restaurant with sophisticated service and decor. The Mandarin set a standard for high-end, authentic Chinese cooking, and Chiang ran the restaurant until 1991. She later became a consultant for Betelnut on Union Square; her son Phillip went on to found P.F. Chang's. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2008/11/07/check-please-bay-area-season-3-joyce-goldstein-special-391/\">Joyce Goldstein\u003c/a>'s Square One restaurant, in Jackson Square, demonstrated that there was a lot more to real Mediterranean food than spaghetti and dolmas. Goldstein, a cooking teacher and former Cafe at Chez Panisse chef who had lived and traveled extensively all around the Mediterranean, brought the vibrant, sunny flavors of these countries back to California. Square One, which she opened in 1984, offered dishes inspired by everything from Spanish tapas to Turkish mezze to Moroccan tagines. It helped shape the Mediterranean focus of California cuisine that continues today. Goldstein closed the restaurant in 1997, but has continued as a popular cookbook author, teacher, and consultant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many successful women who have weathered the ups and downs of a demanding profession, they get a little tired of being classified as \"women chefs.\" However, this profession is still one that's dominated by men, and it was much more so back in the 1960s, when all three were starting out. But it helped to be in San Francisco. Said Joyce, \"The Bay Area was always progressive. Banks here would lend women money. There were a lot of women entrepreneurs, women running businesses in the city.\" Now, she says, there are a lot of women in the wine business, women not just working as pastry chefs but running their own bakeries, manufacturing their own jams and confections, running businesses rather than just cooking at home for fun. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiang had a different experience, trying to break into what was then a very insular, Cantonese-dominated Chinese food world. Said Chiang, \"I was a woman, and restaurants weren't a women's business. I can't speak Cantonese, and then 90% of the Chinese-restaurant population spoke Cantonese. I would speak Mandarin to them, and they'd laugh at me, be very insulting, treat me like a foreigner. I couldn't get credit at any of the produce, fish, or meat markets in Chinatown; I had to pay cash for everything. The Americans were so kind, they accepted me, but not the Chinese, because I was a woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, said Nancy, women in the business are competing on a level playing field, especially here in the Bay Area, where there's more diversity, and kitchens are less dominated by the European boys' club common in New York restaurants. So, why do male chefs still get the lion's share of press and notoriety? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, besides \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/03/01/book-review-blood-bones-butter-by-gabrielle-hamilton/\">Gabrielle Hamilton\u003c/a>, who keeps her end up being outrageous, most women chefs don't feel they have to be potty-mouthed in the school of [Anthony] Bourdain and [David] Chang, traveling in packs and dropping f-bombs. Women do this because we like the work, not to be a celebrity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the three of them, they've seen a lot of trends come and go. Foraging, for example, is nothing new. Back in Chez Panisse's early years, Nancy remembered Alice Waters and pastry chef Lindsey Shere constantly picking through the Berkeley backyards of their friends and neighbors, making poundcakes scented with rose geranium leaves, plucking nasturtium blossoms and purslane for salads. \"I keep learning,\" noted Nancy. \"I'm not a chemical-food or foam advocate, but when you've got a bunch of 23-year-olds in the kitchen who are excited about this kind of thing, well, I go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.le-sanctuaire.com\">Le Sanctuaire\u003c/a>, we get out the gels and the foams and see what works, what will really be worth eating, what will stand the test of time. I think you need 100 years to really create a cuisine. How long has it been for California cuisine, 30, 40 years? We're still finding out what will last.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was first starting out, I needed a lot of ingredients that the Cantonese don't use. No one carried them; I had to get everything shipped in from Taiwan. Now, you can get anything in Asian markets, things from all over,\" said Cecilia. She's less impressed with the quality of Chinese restaurants in the Bay Area now. \"The cooks aren't professionally trained, they don't have passion. It's just a business.\" As a restaurant-owning friend pointed out to her, a restaurant can make so much more money off hard liquor and entertainment, like karaoke, there's little incentive to invest in high-quality ingredients or top-notch chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been so much progression in Mediterranean food. It's much more about specific cuisines now,\" noted Joyce. Restaurants don't just serve Italian food, they serve Roman, Sicilian, or Sardinian food. And the quality of up-and-coming cooks is higher, too. \"Everyone's going to cooking schools, doing \u003cem>stages\u003c/em>...they don't always have the palate or the passion, but they do have the skills.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do they miss? The California-meets-Chinese cuisine of the late \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/05/26/reaching-for-the-moon-at-china-moon-cafe/\">Barbara Tropp\u003c/a>, for one, whose China Moon Cafe has never been equaled. \"She was a scholar, extremely meticulous, doing Chinese cooking with California ingredients. No else has picked up on that, to the degree that she was doing,\" said Joyce. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where do they go now? \u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthsf.com\">Commonwealth\u003c/a>, said Nancy. \"I like the great spirit there, the service, the wine list where I never recognize anything but always find something interesting, the fact that 10% of the cost of the tasting menu goes to charity.\" Goldstein agreed. Normally suspicious of tech-y modernist cuisine, she said, \"I was pleasantly surprised! Jason Fox understands texture, he understands flavor, and they understand hospitality. I feel the same about \u003ca href=\"http://www.nopasf.com\">Nopa\u003c/a>. I bring people there from out of town. Yes, it's boisterous, but the food is solid and grounded, and I love the wine list. Perbacco, too, because I always learn something. And because I like to see the chef actually in the restaurant, in the farmers' market.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.garydanko.com\">Gary Danko\u003c/a>, says Cecilia. It's very consistent, and the prices haven't changed. She likes \u003ca href=\"http://www.benusf.com\">Benu\u003c/a>, too, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com\">Prospect\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very hard to stay viable, and stay relevant,\" Nancy admitted. \"It's an art, and it's a business.\"\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, and Nancy Oakes, three women who shaped the San Francisco restaurant scene come together to discuss the past and future of food at SF Chefs 2011.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1312911024,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":1259},"headData":{"title":"SF Chefs 2011: Women Pioneer Chefs | KQED","description":"Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, and Nancy Oakes, three women who shaped the San Francisco restaurant scene come together to discuss the past and future of food at SF Chefs 2011.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"SF Chefs 2011: Women Pioneer Chefs","datePublished":"2011-08-09T17:25:28.000Z","dateModified":"2011-08-09T17:30:24.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"31183 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=31183","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/08/09/sf-chefs-2011-women-pioneer-chefs/","disqusTitle":"SF Chefs 2011: Women Pioneer Chefs","path":"/bayareabites/31183/sf-chefs-2011-women-pioneer-chefs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/08/sfchefs2011.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2011/08/sfchefs2011.jpg\" alt=\"Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, Nancy Oakes\" title=\"Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, Nancy Oakes\" width=\"500\" height=\"228\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31214\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, Nancy Oakes. Photos: courtesy of SF Chefs 2011\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of celebrity-chef star power was on display last week at \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchefs2011.com\">SF Chefs 2011\u003c/a>. But on Sunday morning, when a lot of event-goers were still sleeping off the effects of Saturday night's tasting-tent cocktails, Joyce Goldstein, Cecilia Chiang, and Nancy Oakes, three of the city's true pioneer chefs, were chatting in front of a small but attentive audience, discussing the challenges, achievements, and changes happening then and now in San Francisco's restaurant scene. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some background, for you newcomers: Nancy Oakes is the executive chef of \u003ca href=\"http://www.boulevardrestaurant.com\">Boulevard\u003c/a>, the brasserie-style New American restaurant at the foot of Mission Street that's 18 years old and still garnering awards and a swarm of reservations every night. Before that, she was the chef/owner of L'Avenue, an acclaimed 50-seat bistro. She also heads the team at \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com/\">Prospect\u003c/a> in Soma, which opened last year to rave reviews. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/05/25/at-the-mandarin-cecilia-chiang-changed-chinese-food/\">Cecilia Chiang\u003c/a>, now in her 90s, brought the fiery flavors of Hunan and Szechuan cuisine to a city dominated by Cantonese cooking. She opened the 300-seat Mandarin in Ghirardelli Square in 1968, making it a destination restaurant with sophisticated service and decor. The Mandarin set a standard for high-end, authentic Chinese cooking, and Chiang ran the restaurant until 1991. She later became a consultant for Betelnut on Union Square; her son Phillip went on to found P.F. Chang's. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/checkplease/2008/11/07/check-please-bay-area-season-3-joyce-goldstein-special-391/\">Joyce Goldstein\u003c/a>'s Square One restaurant, in Jackson Square, demonstrated that there was a lot more to real Mediterranean food than spaghetti and dolmas. Goldstein, a cooking teacher and former Cafe at Chez Panisse chef who had lived and traveled extensively all around the Mediterranean, brought the vibrant, sunny flavors of these countries back to California. Square One, which she opened in 1984, offered dishes inspired by everything from Spanish tapas to Turkish mezze to Moroccan tagines. It helped shape the Mediterranean focus of California cuisine that continues today. Goldstein closed the restaurant in 1997, but has continued as a popular cookbook author, teacher, and consultant. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many successful women who have weathered the ups and downs of a demanding profession, they get a little tired of being classified as \"women chefs.\" However, this profession is still one that's dominated by men, and it was much more so back in the 1960s, when all three were starting out. But it helped to be in San Francisco. Said Joyce, \"The Bay Area was always progressive. Banks here would lend women money. There were a lot of women entrepreneurs, women running businesses in the city.\" Now, she says, there are a lot of women in the wine business, women not just working as pastry chefs but running their own bakeries, manufacturing their own jams and confections, running businesses rather than just cooking at home for fun. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiang had a different experience, trying to break into what was then a very insular, Cantonese-dominated Chinese food world. Said Chiang, \"I was a woman, and restaurants weren't a women's business. I can't speak Cantonese, and then 90% of the Chinese-restaurant population spoke Cantonese. I would speak Mandarin to them, and they'd laugh at me, be very insulting, treat me like a foreigner. I couldn't get credit at any of the produce, fish, or meat markets in Chinatown; I had to pay cash for everything. The Americans were so kind, they accepted me, but not the Chinese, because I was a woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, said Nancy, women in the business are competing on a level playing field, especially here in the Bay Area, where there's more diversity, and kitchens are less dominated by the European boys' club common in New York restaurants. So, why do male chefs still get the lion's share of press and notoriety? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, besides \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2011/03/01/book-review-blood-bones-butter-by-gabrielle-hamilton/\">Gabrielle Hamilton\u003c/a>, who keeps her end up being outrageous, most women chefs don't feel they have to be potty-mouthed in the school of [Anthony] Bourdain and [David] Chang, traveling in packs and dropping f-bombs. Women do this because we like the work, not to be a celebrity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between the three of them, they've seen a lot of trends come and go. Foraging, for example, is nothing new. Back in Chez Panisse's early years, Nancy remembered Alice Waters and pastry chef Lindsey Shere constantly picking through the Berkeley backyards of their friends and neighbors, making poundcakes scented with rose geranium leaves, plucking nasturtium blossoms and purslane for salads. \"I keep learning,\" noted Nancy. \"I'm not a chemical-food or foam advocate, but when you've got a bunch of 23-year-olds in the kitchen who are excited about this kind of thing, well, I go to \u003ca href=\"http://www.le-sanctuaire.com\">Le Sanctuaire\u003c/a>, we get out the gels and the foams and see what works, what will really be worth eating, what will stand the test of time. I think you need 100 years to really create a cuisine. How long has it been for California cuisine, 30, 40 years? We're still finding out what will last.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was first starting out, I needed a lot of ingredients that the Cantonese don't use. No one carried them; I had to get everything shipped in from Taiwan. Now, you can get anything in Asian markets, things from all over,\" said Cecilia. She's less impressed with the quality of Chinese restaurants in the Bay Area now. \"The cooks aren't professionally trained, they don't have passion. It's just a business.\" As a restaurant-owning friend pointed out to her, a restaurant can make so much more money off hard liquor and entertainment, like karaoke, there's little incentive to invest in high-quality ingredients or top-notch chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been so much progression in Mediterranean food. It's much more about specific cuisines now,\" noted Joyce. Restaurants don't just serve Italian food, they serve Roman, Sicilian, or Sardinian food. And the quality of up-and-coming cooks is higher, too. \"Everyone's going to cooking schools, doing \u003cem>stages\u003c/em>...they don't always have the palate or the passion, but they do have the skills.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What do they miss? The California-meets-Chinese cuisine of the late \u003ca href=\"http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/05/26/reaching-for-the-moon-at-china-moon-cafe/\">Barbara Tropp\u003c/a>, for one, whose China Moon Cafe has never been equaled. \"She was a scholar, extremely meticulous, doing Chinese cooking with California ingredients. No else has picked up on that, to the degree that she was doing,\" said Joyce. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And where do they go now? \u003ca href=\"http://www.commonwealthsf.com\">Commonwealth\u003c/a>, said Nancy. \"I like the great spirit there, the service, the wine list where I never recognize anything but always find something interesting, the fact that 10% of the cost of the tasting menu goes to charity.\" Goldstein agreed. Normally suspicious of tech-y modernist cuisine, she said, \"I was pleasantly surprised! Jason Fox understands texture, he understands flavor, and they understand hospitality. I feel the same about \u003ca href=\"http://www.nopasf.com\">Nopa\u003c/a>. I bring people there from out of town. Yes, it's boisterous, but the food is solid and grounded, and I love the wine list. Perbacco, too, because I always learn something. And because I like to see the chef actually in the restaurant, in the farmers' market.\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.garydanko.com\">Gary Danko\u003c/a>, says Cecilia. It's very consistent, and the prices haven't changed. She likes \u003ca href=\"http://www.benusf.com\">Benu\u003c/a>, too, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.prospectsf.com\">Prospect\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's very hard to stay viable, and stay relevant,\" Nancy admitted. \"It's an art, and it's a business.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/31183/sf-chefs-2011-women-pioneer-chefs","authors":["5038"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_752","bayareabites_63","bayareabites_1244","bayareabites_2090","bayareabites_1807","bayareabites_90"],"tags":["bayareabites_9580","bayareabites_1556","bayareabites_4003","bayareabites_9581","bayareabites_9582"],"featImg":"bayareabites_31214","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_13624":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_13624","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"13624","score":null,"sort":[1274286658000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"star-chefs-and-vintners-gala-a-feast-of-a-fete","title":"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala: a Feast of a Fete","publishDate":1274286658,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1711_birdseye.JPG\" alt=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala behind the scenes\" title=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala behind the scenes\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13627\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/05/meals-on-wheels-benefit-star-chefs-and-vintners-gala/\">23rd Annual Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\u003c/a> benefiting \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/index.html\">Meals on Wheels\u003c/a> was a feast of a fete, with more than 70 chefs working their magic behind the scenes, over 75 wineries pouring, and a steady stream of boozy concoctions coming from a few of the city's favorite bartenders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hors d'oeuvres \"grazer\" was superb and barely left room for dinner. Of the (way too many) bites I had, some favorites were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Janine-Falvo_tartar-cone.jpg\" alt=\"Janine Falvo's tartar cone\" title=\"Janine Falvo's tartar cone\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13633\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janine Falvo's\u003c/strong> (Carneros Bistro & Wine Bar) adorable mini cone filled with orange marlin tartar with green peas and black truffle shavings. Notably, the green peas had been hit with some liquid nitrogen and then transformed into a powder form before being folded into the tartar. Fresh, light, and tasting of spring. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Baker-and-Banker_latke.jpg\" alt=\"Baker and Banker's latke\" title=\"Baker and Banker's latke\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13625\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Banker\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Lori Baker's\u003c/strong> (Baker & Banker) house-smoked trout on potato latke with pickled beets, shaved fennel and horseradish crème fraiche. Crispy and satisfying with familiar flavors amped up with great ingredients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Jen-Biesty_foie-mousse.jpg\" alt=\"Jen Biesty's foie mousse\" title=\"Jen Biesty's foie mousse\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13634\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Biesty's\u003c/strong> (Scala's Bistro) duck liver mousse crostini topped with Swanton Farms strawberries, Sicilian pistachios and Villa Manodori balsamic. A rich, salty, sweet, balanced bite of perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Ritz_Scallop.jpg\" alt=\"Ritz's Scallop over Uni Risotto\" title=\"Ritz's Scallop over Uni Risotto\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13635\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Beriau\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Patrick Callarec's\u003c/strong> (The Ritz-Carlton SF) seared jumbo scallop over uni risotto. The scallop was silky smooth and quivering inside, and the sea urchin roe risotto was pure decadence. Felt rich just eating this little plate…which was probably the idea…after wining and dining so well, one could sure feel like she had \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Benjamins+\">Benjamins\u003c/a> lining her clutch. All part of the plan, I'm sure, as the Silent Auction was well underway at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1422.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Beattie's John Chapman\" title=\"Scott Beattie's John Chapman\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13626\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudos to the bartenders as well. Those cocktails were works of art. I fell in love with \u003cstrong>Scott Beattie's\u003c/strong> (H.M.S. Cocktails) John Chapman -- a martini of St. George whiskey, lemon juice, ginger simple syrup, local apple juice, and St. George Pear au de Vie, topped with Thai coconut-apple-ginger foam and dehydrated apple chips, a sprinkle of cinnamon and pretty flower petals. Purrr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_2083.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chefs Gala Auction\" title=\"Star Chefs Gala Auction\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13632\"> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, by actual dinner time, folks' paddle hands were well-oiled. A record-breaking $1.2 million was raised this year. Not surprising, considering there were some big ticket items on the auction block, like getting whisked away on a private jet to Sun Valley for three nights, during which \u003cstrong>Nancy Oakes\u003c/strong> (Boulevard) herself will prepare dinner for you and 7 of your closest friends (Winning bid: $38K). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1752_chefs.jpg\" alt=\"Chefs behind the scenes\" title=\"Chefs behind the scenes\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13628\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By far, the coolest thing of the evening was getting to witness the mass of top chefs preparing the courses behind the curtain. It was a sight to behold. A sea of plates, chef's whites, and incredible camaraderie. It was like a well-orchestrated dance -- teams of chefs searing, plating, garnishing…dozens of skilled hands hovering over rows upon rows of plates…and a procession of fantastic servers at the ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1755_chefs.jpg\" alt=\"Mourad Lahlou and Chefs\" title=\"Mourad Lahlou and Chefs\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13629\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gala Chef Chair Nancy Oakes oversaw the 10 teams of chefs, with each team producing a different 3-course menu for close to 1000 guests. Given the scale of this endeavor, it was truly impressive how completely under control the entire operation was. I caught Oakes surveying the scene with a smile on her face and she must have been thinking the same thing as she commented on how calm everyone was. No frenzy, no panic. Just brisk, precise work, and lots of smiles. And this is why these are our star chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_2008_Boulevard_berry-brioche-pudding.jpg\" alt=\"Boulevard's berry brioche pudding\" title=\"Boulevard's berry brioche pudding\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13630\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening ended with a stunning dessert reception with every sweet imaginable – cookies, cupcakes, ice cream, mochi, affogato, chocolate in all shapes and sizes – indulgent confections all laid out to be ravished with gusto. By then it seemed, everyone was too sauced to count calories. Favorites of the evening were \u003cstrong>Jessica Sullivan's\u003c/strong> (Boulevard) summer berry brioche pudding and \u003cstrong>Taste Catering's\u003c/strong> fantastical Alice in Wonderland-inspired spread. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking though, I think it's safe to say that every excessive calorie was consumed with relish that evening. For a good cause, but of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe align=\"center\" src=\"http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&user_id=31660775@N05&set_id=72157624092449810&tags=chefs,charity,food,wine\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A recap of the Star Chefs and Vintners Gala, and a peak behind the curtain where the 70+ chefs worked their magic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1274297813,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":680},"headData":{"title":"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala: a Feast of a Fete | KQED","description":"A recap of the Star Chefs and Vintners Gala, and a peak behind the curtain where the 70+ chefs worked their magic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala: a Feast of a Fete","datePublished":"2010-05-19T16:30:58.000Z","dateModified":"2010-05-19T19:36:53.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"13624 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=13624","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/19/star-chefs-and-vintners-gala-a-feast-of-a-fete/","disqusTitle":"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala: a Feast of a Fete","path":"/bayareabites/13624/star-chefs-and-vintners-gala-a-feast-of-a-fete","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1711_birdseye.JPG\" alt=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala behind the scenes\" title=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala behind the scenes\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13627\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/05/meals-on-wheels-benefit-star-chefs-and-vintners-gala/\">23rd Annual Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\u003c/a> benefiting \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/index.html\">Meals on Wheels\u003c/a> was a feast of a fete, with more than 70 chefs working their magic behind the scenes, over 75 wineries pouring, and a steady stream of boozy concoctions coming from a few of the city's favorite bartenders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hors d'oeuvres \"grazer\" was superb and barely left room for dinner. Of the (way too many) bites I had, some favorites were:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Janine-Falvo_tartar-cone.jpg\" alt=\"Janine Falvo's tartar cone\" title=\"Janine Falvo's tartar cone\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13633\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Janine Falvo's\u003c/strong> (Carneros Bistro & Wine Bar) adorable mini cone filled with orange marlin tartar with green peas and black truffle shavings. Notably, the green peas had been hit with some liquid nitrogen and then transformed into a powder form before being folded into the tartar. Fresh, light, and tasting of spring. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Baker-and-Banker_latke.jpg\" alt=\"Baker and Banker's latke\" title=\"Baker and Banker's latke\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13625\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jeff Banker\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Lori Baker's\u003c/strong> (Baker & Banker) house-smoked trout on potato latke with pickled beets, shaved fennel and horseradish crème fraiche. Crispy and satisfying with familiar flavors amped up with great ingredients. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Jen-Biesty_foie-mousse.jpg\" alt=\"Jen Biesty's foie mousse\" title=\"Jen Biesty's foie mousse\" width=\"408\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13634\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jennifer Biesty's\u003c/strong> (Scala's Bistro) duck liver mousse crostini topped with Swanton Farms strawberries, Sicilian pistachios and Villa Manodori balsamic. A rich, salty, sweet, balanced bite of perfect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Ritz_Scallop.jpg\" alt=\"Ritz's Scallop over Uni Risotto\" title=\"Ritz's Scallop over Uni Risotto\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13635\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nathan Beriau\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>Patrick Callarec's\u003c/strong> (The Ritz-Carlton SF) seared jumbo scallop over uni risotto. The scallop was silky smooth and quivering inside, and the sea urchin roe risotto was pure decadence. Felt rich just eating this little plate…which was probably the idea…after wining and dining so well, one could sure feel like she had \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Benjamins+\">Benjamins\u003c/a> lining her clutch. All part of the plan, I'm sure, as the Silent Auction was well underway at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1422.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Beattie's John Chapman\" title=\"Scott Beattie's John Chapman\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13626\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kudos to the bartenders as well. Those cocktails were works of art. I fell in love with \u003cstrong>Scott Beattie's\u003c/strong> (H.M.S. Cocktails) John Chapman -- a martini of St. George whiskey, lemon juice, ginger simple syrup, local apple juice, and St. George Pear au de Vie, topped with Thai coconut-apple-ginger foam and dehydrated apple chips, a sprinkle of cinnamon and pretty flower petals. Purrr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_2083.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chefs Gala Auction\" title=\"Star Chefs Gala Auction\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13632\"> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Needless to say, by actual dinner time, folks' paddle hands were well-oiled. A record-breaking $1.2 million was raised this year. Not surprising, considering there were some big ticket items on the auction block, like getting whisked away on a private jet to Sun Valley for three nights, during which \u003cstrong>Nancy Oakes\u003c/strong> (Boulevard) herself will prepare dinner for you and 7 of your closest friends (Winning bid: $38K). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1752_chefs.jpg\" alt=\"Chefs behind the scenes\" title=\"Chefs behind the scenes\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13628\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By far, the coolest thing of the evening was getting to witness the mass of top chefs preparing the courses behind the curtain. It was a sight to behold. A sea of plates, chef's whites, and incredible camaraderie. It was like a well-orchestrated dance -- teams of chefs searing, plating, garnishing…dozens of skilled hands hovering over rows upon rows of plates…and a procession of fantastic servers at the ready. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_1755_chefs.jpg\" alt=\"Mourad Lahlou and Chefs\" title=\"Mourad Lahlou and Chefs\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13629\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gala Chef Chair Nancy Oakes oversaw the 10 teams of chefs, with each team producing a different 3-course menu for close to 1000 guests. Given the scale of this endeavor, it was truly impressive how completely under control the entire operation was. I caught Oakes surveying the scene with a smile on her face and she must have been thinking the same thing as she commented on how calm everyone was. No frenzy, no panic. Just brisk, precise work, and lots of smiles. And this is why these are our star chefs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/IMG_2008_Boulevard_berry-brioche-pudding.jpg\" alt=\"Boulevard's berry brioche pudding\" title=\"Boulevard's berry brioche pudding\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13630\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening ended with a stunning dessert reception with every sweet imaginable – cookies, cupcakes, ice cream, mochi, affogato, chocolate in all shapes and sizes – indulgent confections all laid out to be ravished with gusto. By then it seemed, everyone was too sauced to count calories. Favorites of the evening were \u003cstrong>Jessica Sullivan's\u003c/strong> (Boulevard) summer berry brioche pudding and \u003cstrong>Taste Catering's\u003c/strong> fantastical Alice in Wonderland-inspired spread. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generally speaking though, I think it's safe to say that every excessive calorie was consumed with relish that evening. For a good cause, but of course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe align=\"center\" src=\"http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&user_id=31660775@N05&set_id=72157624092449810&tags=chefs,charity,food,wine\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/13624/star-chefs-and-vintners-gala-a-feast-of-a-fete","authors":["5037"],"categories":["bayareabites_63","bayareabites_50","bayareabites_3032"],"tags":["bayareabites_4002","bayareabites_4003","bayareabites_4089"],"label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_13014":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_13014","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"13014","score":null,"sort":[1273069037000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"meals-on-wheels-benefit-star-chefs-and-vintners-gala","title":"Meals on Wheels Benefit: Star Chefs and Vintners Gala","publishDate":1273069037,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/MOW09_220-LR.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" title=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13016\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cstrong>Sunday, May 16th\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/index.html\">Meals on Wheels of San Francisco\u003c/a> will be throwing its \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/gala/\">23rd Annual Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\u003c/a> at Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion. The gala is a benefit for San Francisco's homebound seniors, and is the organization's largest fundraiser of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Oakes\u003c/strong> of Boulevard will be returning for her 7th year as Gala Chef Chair -- it will be her 22nd year participating in the benefit. She will be leading an illustrious line-up of more than \u003cstrong>70\u003c/strong> of the Bay Area's finest chefs. Who says too many cooks in the kitchen is a bad thing? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the chefs participating in this year's gala are: Mourad Lahlou (Aziza), Jeff Banker/Lori Baker (Baker & Banker), Daniel Patterson (Coi), Douglas Keane/Nick Peyton (Cyrus), Jan Birnbaum (Epic Roasthouse), Thomas McNaughton (Flour + Water), Chris Cosentino (Incanto), Staffan Terje (Perbacco), Laurence Jossel (Nopa / Nopalito), Richard Reddington (REDD), Charles Phan (The Slanted Door), and Mark Sullivan (Spruce). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk about a culinary dream team, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/MOW09_lahlou.jpg\" alt=\"Mourad Lahlou at Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" title=\"Mourad Lahlou at Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13021\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many all-stars on board, the meal will no doubt be stellar. I asked Oakes what it's like organizing such a massive undertaking with so much talent involved. She responded, \"First and foremost, we are so fortunate to be in the Bay Area. So many [of our talented chefs] say yes.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistically, the evening will begin with an \u003cstrong>hors d'oeuvre \"grazer\"\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>wine reception\u003c/strong>, featuring creations from more than 30 chef and wineries. Following will be a \u003cstrong>three-course, sit-down meal\u003c/strong>. Oakes explained, the chefs have been grouped together to form 8 groups total. Each group will prepare its own menu for its assigned seating area. \"The goal is to let the chefs be who they are,\" she said. \"With each group cooking for about 100 people, it's important that they are able to put something out that they are proud of…and of course, to have fun.\" Chefs with similar cooking styles will be grouped together, and at least one veteran gala chef will be placed on each team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, with more than \u003cstrong>75\u003c/strong> of California's leading vintners participating in the gala, there will be plenty of wine to pair with all that fantastic food. And in case you're still feeling thirsty, a special cocktail bar manned by beloved bartenders, Scott Beattie (Hangar One), Jon Gasparini (Rye), Scott Baird & Aaron Smith (15 Romolo) and Daniel Hyatt (The Alembic Bar) will serve up classic spirits and exotic concoctions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening will culminate with a lavish dessert reception, featuring sweet treats from Sara Spearin (Dynamo Donuts), Jake Godby (Humphry Slocombe) and Bill Corbett (Coi & Il Cane Rosso), just to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/MOW09_auction.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala Auction\" title=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala Auction\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13022\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's not forget about the benefit aspect of this whole shindig. Both a \u003cstrong>live\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>silent auction\u003c/strong> will be held, during which guests will have the opportunity to bid on a number of lavish prizes (food, wine, and luxury-themed). Guests will also have the chance to pledge donations to the \u003cstrong>\"Fund-A-Route\"\u003c/strong> campaign, which goes towards funding an entire meal delivery route for the next year. Last year's gala raised a grand total of $1.1 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Providing nourishing meals and supportive services for San Francisco's seniors is of utmost importance during these trying economic times,\" said Ashley McCumber, Executive Director of Meals On Wheels of San Francisco. \"With the generosity of these world-class chefs and wineries, we are able to provide 440,000 meals to seniors in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets are pricey, but if you have deep pockets or know someone who does, encourage them to wine and dine for a good cause. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Individual tickets are priced at $400, with patron levels ranging from $1,500 to $20,000. To reserve tickets or for more information, call 415-343-1280 or visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/\">www.mowsf.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>******\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the menus have yet to be finalized, I'm betting that we can expect to see lots of local spring bounty. Think asparagus, strawberries, baby carrots, fava beans, fresh, light, vibrant flavors. Here's a sneak peek at a dish \u003cstrong>Chris Cosentino\u003c/strong> (Incanto) is preparing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Farmers-Market-Ferry-Building-028.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberries\" title=\"Strawberries\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13027\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fava Bean and Strawberry Salad with Pecorino\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Recipe courtesy of Chris Cosentino, Executive Chef of Incanto & Co-founder of Boccalone\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serves:\u003c/strong> 6 \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2 cups shelled fresh fava beans [about 2 pounds of favas in their pods]\u003cbr>\n2 cups strawberries, trimmed and quartered\u003cbr>\n1 bunch wild rucola or arugula\u003cbr>\nPecorino cheese\u003cbr>\nJuice of 1 lemon\u003cbr>\n¼ cup balsamic vinegar\u003cbr>\n4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil\u003cbr>\nKosher or sea salt, to taste\u003cbr>\nCoarse ground black pepper, to taste\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1.\tBring a pot of water to boil, season with salt, blanch the shelled favas for about 1 minute then transfer to an ice bath seasoned with one teaspoon of salt so as not to overcook.\u003cbr>\n2.\tRemove the skins of the larger favas and discard, the smaller ones don’t need to be removed as they are not tough or bitter. Place the favas in a mixing bowl, then set aside.\u003cbr>\n3.\tAdd the strawberries to the fava beans. Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper. Add the rucola or arugula.\u003cbr>\n4.\tDress with a splash of lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, and olive oil, toss to incorporate all the ingredients. Put on a platter or on individual plates.\u003cbr>\n5.\tUsing a vegetable peeler, peel curls of pecorino on top and serve.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Wine and dine for a good cause: indulge in the talents of 70 of the Bay Area's finest chefs; imbibe in the goods from 75 of California's leading vintners.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1273036527,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":904},"headData":{"title":"Meals on Wheels Benefit: Star Chefs and Vintners Gala | KQED","description":"Wine and dine for a good cause: indulge in the talents of 70 of the Bay Area's finest chefs; imbibe in the goods from 75 of California's leading vintners.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Meals on Wheels Benefit: Star Chefs and Vintners Gala","datePublished":"2010-05-05T14:17:17.000Z","dateModified":"2010-05-05T05:15:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"disqusIdentifier":"13014 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=13014","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2010/05/05/meals-on-wheels-benefit-star-chefs-and-vintners-gala/","disqusTitle":"Meals on Wheels Benefit: Star Chefs and Vintners Gala","path":"/bayareabites/13014/meals-on-wheels-benefit-star-chefs-and-vintners-gala","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/MOW09_220-LR.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" title=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13016\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003cstrong>Sunday, May 16th\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/index.html\">Meals on Wheels of San Francisco\u003c/a> will be throwing its \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/gala/\">23rd Annual Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\u003c/a> at Fort Mason's Festival Pavilion. The gala is a benefit for San Francisco's homebound seniors, and is the organization's largest fundraiser of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Oakes\u003c/strong> of Boulevard will be returning for her 7th year as Gala Chef Chair -- it will be her 22nd year participating in the benefit. She will be leading an illustrious line-up of more than \u003cstrong>70\u003c/strong> of the Bay Area's finest chefs. Who says too many cooks in the kitchen is a bad thing? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the chefs participating in this year's gala are: Mourad Lahlou (Aziza), Jeff Banker/Lori Baker (Baker & Banker), Daniel Patterson (Coi), Douglas Keane/Nick Peyton (Cyrus), Jan Birnbaum (Epic Roasthouse), Thomas McNaughton (Flour + Water), Chris Cosentino (Incanto), Staffan Terje (Perbacco), Laurence Jossel (Nopa / Nopalito), Richard Reddington (REDD), Charles Phan (The Slanted Door), and Mark Sullivan (Spruce). \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk about a culinary dream team, huh?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/MOW09_lahlou.jpg\" alt=\"Mourad Lahlou at Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" title=\"Mourad Lahlou at Star Chefs and Vintners Gala\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13021\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so many all-stars on board, the meal will no doubt be stellar. I asked Oakes what it's like organizing such a massive undertaking with so much talent involved. She responded, \"First and foremost, we are so fortunate to be in the Bay Area. So many [of our talented chefs] say yes.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistically, the evening will begin with an \u003cstrong>hors d'oeuvre \"grazer\"\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>wine reception\u003c/strong>, featuring creations from more than 30 chef and wineries. Following will be a \u003cstrong>three-course, sit-down meal\u003c/strong>. Oakes explained, the chefs have been grouped together to form 8 groups total. Each group will prepare its own menu for its assigned seating area. \"The goal is to let the chefs be who they are,\" she said. \"With each group cooking for about 100 people, it's important that they are able to put something out that they are proud of…and of course, to have fun.\" Chefs with similar cooking styles will be grouped together, and at least one veteran gala chef will be placed on each team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, with more than \u003cstrong>75\u003c/strong> of California's leading vintners participating in the gala, there will be plenty of wine to pair with all that fantastic food. And in case you're still feeling thirsty, a special cocktail bar manned by beloved bartenders, Scott Beattie (Hangar One), Jon Gasparini (Rye), Scott Baird & Aaron Smith (15 Romolo) and Daniel Hyatt (The Alembic Bar) will serve up classic spirits and exotic concoctions. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evening will culminate with a lavish dessert reception, featuring sweet treats from Sara Spearin (Dynamo Donuts), Jake Godby (Humphry Slocombe) and Bill Corbett (Coi & Il Cane Rosso), just to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/MOW09_auction.jpg\" alt=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala Auction\" title=\"Star Chefs and Vintners Gala Auction\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13022\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let's not forget about the benefit aspect of this whole shindig. Both a \u003cstrong>live\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>silent auction\u003c/strong> will be held, during which guests will have the opportunity to bid on a number of lavish prizes (food, wine, and luxury-themed). Guests will also have the chance to pledge donations to the \u003cstrong>\"Fund-A-Route\"\u003c/strong> campaign, which goes towards funding an entire meal delivery route for the next year. Last year's gala raised a grand total of $1.1 million. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Providing nourishing meals and supportive services for San Francisco's seniors is of utmost importance during these trying economic times,\" said Ashley McCumber, Executive Director of Meals On Wheels of San Francisco. \"With the generosity of these world-class chefs and wineries, we are able to provide 440,000 meals to seniors in San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets are pricey, but if you have deep pockets or know someone who does, encourage them to wine and dine for a good cause. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Individual tickets are priced at $400, with patron levels ranging from $1,500 to $20,000. To reserve tickets or for more information, call 415-343-1280 or visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.mowsf.org/\">www.mowsf.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>******\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the menus have yet to be finalized, I'm betting that we can expect to see lots of local spring bounty. Think asparagus, strawberries, baby carrots, fava beans, fresh, light, vibrant flavors. Here's a sneak peek at a dish \u003cstrong>Chris Cosentino\u003c/strong> (Incanto) is preparing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2010/05/Farmers-Market-Ferry-Building-028.jpg\" alt=\"Strawberries\" title=\"Strawberries\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13027\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fava Bean and Strawberry Salad with Pecorino\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Recipe courtesy of Chris Cosentino, Executive Chef of Incanto & Co-founder of Boccalone\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Serves:\u003c/strong> 6 \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ingredients:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n2 cups shelled fresh fava beans [about 2 pounds of favas in their pods]\u003cbr>\n2 cups strawberries, trimmed and quartered\u003cbr>\n1 bunch wild rucola or arugula\u003cbr>\nPecorino cheese\u003cbr>\nJuice of 1 lemon\u003cbr>\n¼ cup balsamic vinegar\u003cbr>\n4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil\u003cbr>\nKosher or sea salt, to taste\u003cbr>\nCoarse ground black pepper, to taste\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Preparation:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1.\tBring a pot of water to boil, season with salt, blanch the shelled favas for about 1 minute then transfer to an ice bath seasoned with one teaspoon of salt so as not to overcook.\u003cbr>\n2.\tRemove the skins of the larger favas and discard, the smaller ones don’t need to be removed as they are not tough or bitter. 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