His first sweet creation, a rice pudding, had been offered to his discerning chef-parents when he was 12.
For model-actor-chef-aristo turned biodynamic farmer Daniel de la Falaise, finding your calling late in life runs in the family.
In this vein, one of the final events is a team competition, Iron Chef-style, pairing students with guest chefs.
At Yusho, in Chicago, chef-owner Matthias Merges takes things several steps further.
And I thought we could muddle through without the governor's personal chef - although I've got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her.
Sean Brock, chef-partner at Husk and McCrady's, both in Charleston, S.C.
What's more, thanks to chef-owner Moshik Roth, I'm confident that meat- and fish-free cooking can succeed in throwing off its deadly earnestness along with its puritanical baggage.
Solution: Look for the word grilled, suggests Ori Menashe, chef-owner of Bestia in Los Angeles, where most of the small plates on the menu feature grilled seafood.
Raymond Blanc, the chef-proprietor of Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, has catered for Valentine's Day in every restaurant he has owned in Britain for the past 35 years.
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Ebullient chef-owner Feridun Ugumu comes out to greet every guest and produces spectacular versions of dishes such as lamb with smoked eggplant and a vivid assortment of mezes.
The grill's ceramic interior allows you to achieve professional-chef-like temperatures.
Dinner here is candlelit, locally sourced and courtesy of a highly proficient Keralan chef - and if you are suitably impressed with the food, you can request cooking lessons the following day.
When finished it will offer five new chef-driven sit down restaurants, plus an expansive food hall with taqueria, gourmet burgers, upscale sandwich shop, Chinese barbecue, fresh seafood, fresh market, and pop-up retail stores.
Be it an urban mall in Hollywood, a suburban mall in Ft Lauderdale, or a resort shopping center in Honolulu, mall operators are wooing diners to their retail meccas by offering a variety of cuisine, including unique, new, chef-driven concepts.
The final stop, in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon), includes chef-led cooking classes and a street-food tour -- and boundless opportunities for trying snacks such as banh mi (sandwiches), pho (spicy noodle soup), goi du du (green papaya salad) and banh xeo (rice pancakes with pork and shrimp).
They eat organic, low-calorie meals prepared by the Canyon Ranch chef--not what may be their usual favorites from McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ), Wendy's International (nyse: WEN - news - people ) and Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ).
Like Mr. Cosentino, British farmer-chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has until now been widely known for his commitment to carnivorism (albeit the organic, sustainable sort).
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My next stop was to see Jarrett Wrisley, an American-born chef whose Bangkok-based Thai restaurant, Soul Food Mahanakorn, has received many accolades.
Meanwhile, such higher-end boutique hotels as the Chambers, which opened in 2006, includes a restaurant overseen by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
School dinners will never be the same again with much-lauded Austrian chef Siegfried Danler-Heinemann overseeing the menu at new restaurant Pauly Saal, where Venetian chandeliers and bottle-green banquettes add a touch of 1920s decadence to the former gymnasium.
Chic chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten has a 15% stake in the project and is opening a cafe on site.
Occupants of The Mark Residences, high-end condominiums attached to The Mark Hotel on the Upper East Side, can have meals cooked by celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten delivered to their living rooms.
Turns out it's a thing of great beauty and high performance: available in porcelain enamel in every color with brass or nickel handles and renowned for a "Top Chef"-esteemed combo of side-by-side electric and gas ovens for both dry and moist heat.
Another chef is Fumie Ito, a self-taught chef and mother of three who hopes to make her work on Gobble a full-time business.
Then salvation arrives in the form of Bangkok-based chef David Thompson, Michelin-starred for his Thai restaurant nahm in London's Halkin hotel (halkin. como.bz).
Last year, the Israeli-Dutch chef closed his Michelin two-star, 't Brouwerskolkje, outside of Amsterdam, and moved to a duplex space in the city's Oosterdokseiland district.
One such cove is home to El Bulli -- the three-Michelin-star restaurant run by Catalan super chef Ferran Adria -- voted the world's best restaurant a record five times.
Two dozen all-star chef teams will serve up over-the-top pork preparations, all available to the public attendees for tasting.
For his first Slow Food Fast contribution, the Philadelphia-born chef shares a recipe for maple-glazed quail with butter lettuce tossed with parsley, Anjou pears and toasted almonds.
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