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Chef Alan Kang was born to Taiwanese parents in Northern California until his father's plan to open a haute Chinese restaurant in San Francisco was thwarted by the earthquake of 1989. The family moved...

Chef Hilary grew up in West Virginia where she experimented in the kitchen as a young child. Her curiosity led her to enroll in culinary school and after graduating, she landed at a French fine-dining...

Ever since ombre cakes became fashionable, the colorful trend has filled inspiration boards on Pinterest and flooded foodies' social media feeds. While the ombre hair trend emerged in the early part...

Over the course of many demonstrations and conversations, we engaged with everything from pasta to beef butchery to omotenashi, the art of Japanese hospitality. We explored food media, restaurant...

As the director of the MAD Academy, Chef Magnus leads programming, promoting leadership and important industry topics like sustainability. On the heels of releasing his recent tome, “Fäviken: 4015...

Before Damon Henderson was wearing a chef’s uniform, he wore a correctional officer uniform at the Los Angeles County jail. Chef Damon followed his father, an LA County sheriff, into law enforcement...

From Football to a Future in Food During the eight years Shaun Cody played professional football with the NFL, he had one thing on his mind off the field: food. “When guys on the team would be excited...

Both chefs and diners have dramatically shifted the way they approach food over the last 15 years, and Chef Akhtar's desires happen to meet these demands. Since his days at Craftbar, he has married...

“A great amount of profit in your restaurant will be made off of alcohol,” she shared. “But also, the history of the cocktail, the story of it, is still being written, and you can be a part of it.” To...

At a virtual event with ICE students, the Den team shared its notion of omotenashi, the philosophy of Japanese hospitality, which has kept those tables hard to secure even during the pandemic. “We...

In 2017, when Cher was laid off by her employer, she was out of a paycheck, and sadly like many people today, she could not find a new job. To fill her time, Cher resorted to baking. “What I used to...

While growing his restaurant empire, he launched Lucky Peach magazine and continues to host edgy food programs, from “Mind of a Chef” on PBS to “Ugly Delicious” on Netflix. More recently, Chef David...