Amplified aromas, flavors and heat are his signatures, and his cooking, though accessible, is strikingly new.
If I had my doubts, I had to admit his cooking was exceptional.
Lagasse's next big move was to do a live version of his cooking show in a New York studio.
Back at the hotel, Croasdale then shares his cooking tips on how best to identify and use the edible plants, mushrooms and berries.
Chef Clyde Nelson describes his cooking as "innovative Western, " an eclectic style that often features local ingredients given haute preparations (pan-seared tournedos of bison with a porcini demi-glace, for instance).
For now, you can heat up the complimentary instant oatmeal in the microwave or drive to the nearby Big Sur Bakery or Nepenthe for meals, but come June, Glen Oaks will have its own dining room, overseen by a chef who worked at the Bakery and Esalen, and plans to let his New Orleans roots show in his cooking.
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Mr. Malouf, 53 years old, is no stranger to Petersham Nurseries, having cooked master classes there in the past when launching his acclaimed cooking-cum-travel books on Middle Eastern cuisine, which he co-authored with his former wife, Lucy Malouf.
Executive Chef Gonzalo Certa, a native of Argentina, incorporates his Latin American cooking style into his culinary creations.
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Creative control on Mydamnchannel means the wackily profane 1990s rap star Coolio gets his own cooking show.
His PBS cooking show "The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter" launched in January.
As a child growing up in Italy, Matteo learned to make fresh pasta using eggs straight from the hen, and still applies this passion to his own cooking methods.
The self-described cooking enthusiast came up with the idea for the device, called the "Sensiboil, " after being fed up waiting around for pots to boil during his own cooking.
He shared his philosophy on cooking, food and life through the photos and text.
When he's not always cooking his own meals, Hopkins shifts interests toward tasteful decor.
Fortunately he does more than his share of cooking and supervising our teenager.
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At his rural farmhouse, Mas Trucafort, he and his wife host cooking classes and meals featuring foods that are typical of the region, like delicious calcots -- a cross between a spring onion and a leek -- served with romesco sauce, and artichokes served with Catalonia's favourite accompaniment, the garlic sauce allioli.
Same goes for India's Azim Premji, who turned his dad's cooking-oil business into technology giant Wipro.
We're supposed to be going to The Kitchin (thekitchin.com), where the eponymous Tom is showstopping with his sophisticated, assured cooking.
He still had the cooking sherry his mother had bought the last time she visited, and maybe there was a bottle of wine somewhere.
Cooking for his Cornell frat boys, Mr. D'Aprix says he sometimes misses the action of a restaurant kitchen now that his work is so much easier.
Those dishes are a one-night stand, but Gagnaire will be in residence December 28 to January 4, cooking previews of his 2013 Twist menus.
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Christophe Demierre, who runs a molecular-cuisine cooking school from his home kitchen in the Fribourg region, makes fondue as a mousse and a powder that are meant to be eaten individually.
About 185km south of Garrotxa is the town of Falset, where the equally passionate chef Roger Felip-Soler works to familiarise visitors with the ingredients and cooking styles of his little corner of Catalonia.
He'd had his fill of it as a young man, trying to be a technical draughtsman and then a quantity surveyor, when all he had wanted to do was stay in his mother's kitchen cooking, and then eating, macaroni with sofrito and sausages, or her special filled pancakes.
Mr Barrington said he sometimes watched television while the power was turned on for cooking but otherwise spent his spare time reading technical journals.
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Munoz gets up around 5:00 a.m. to drive his bus route, and he calls home on his breaks to see how the cooking is going.
When 24-year-old Chandika Madusanka realised that people wanted to learn not only how the spices were grown but how to use them, he began running cooking classes out of his family's kitchen.
For chef Richard Blais, it was a taste here and a taste there done in the course of a day cooking at Blais, his Atlanta restaurant at the time, that caused him to balloon to 230 pounds.
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In fact, Cooking Light magazine named his spiced rum as one of the best artisan products in their 2012 taste awards and The Caribbean Journal awarded Siesta Key toe title of Best Spiced Rum of the Year.
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