Here's where the leaders of modern Turkish cuisine work their magic.
Spoon and Stable's chef/owner Gavin Kaysen, foreground, and Chris Nye, Chef de Cuisine, work together on the ICC Main Stage (Regina Varolli).
Jeremiah Tower, who operates Stars in San Francisco and the Santa Fe Bar & Grill in Berkeley, claims at least partial credit for inventing California cuisine while working as a chef for Miss Waters in the early 1970's.
Chef de cuisine Max Boonthanakit, working mostly in the frozen dessert oeuvre, has produced a lineup of clean, sculptural dishes that look freshly plucked from a Broad exhibit.
The caterers, Design Cuisine, had been working since Friday, searing the tenderloins, parbaking the lobster pie, baking the sticky toffee pudding, part of the 2,000-calorie 2,000-calorie-fat lunch for more than 220 guests.
Since bread and wheat products figure prominently in Uighur cuisine, they're working on installing a specialty oven to bake their own nan, a Uighur staple.
It isn't a case of who influenced who, but rather, how different cuisines can work harmoniously together on a plate.
Gruber flirted with serious cuisine, at one time working with Gordon Ramsay at the Waterside Inn, but the siren song of the deli, the chance to carry on the tradition of his beloved grandfather, was too strong to resist.
He went into his kitchen with his chef de cuisine, Jeff Pikus, and worked on the string first.
A proponent of avant-garde cuisine, Mr. Liebrandt worked briefly at Atlas, where he paired eel with crystallized violets.
