by Alissa Ponchione | Oct 23, 2015 | People
Business school to cooking school Stephanie Izard is synonymous with Chicago food from cooking at local restaurants—Vong, Spring, and La Tache—to her own popular eateries—Girl & the Goat and Little Goat Diner. Though she was born in the Windy City, she grew up in...
by Alissa Ponchione | Oct 23, 2015 | People
Becoming a chef “I basically started working with my brother and sister in a family-owned restaurant in my hometown outside of Omaha as a teenager out of necessity,” Matthew Lightner says. At age 19, he moved to Portland, Oregon with his sister to pursue his dream. A...
by Alissa Ponchione | Oct 23, 2015 | People
Becoming a chef “I’m from Houston, but I’ve lived in Atlanta for the past 16 or 17 years,” says Ford Fry. Having studied at the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont, Fry moved on to fine-dining positions in Florida, Colorado, and California before landing in...
by Alissa Ponchione | Oct 23, 2015 | People
Becoming a chef “I always wanted to do something with my hands and be artistic,” Dominique Ansel says. “I grew up in a poor neighborhood [in France] where we needed to get a job early to sustain ourselves. At age 16, the kitchen was a place that welcomed me.” Why...
by Alissa Ponchione | Oct 23, 2015 | People
Becoming a chef Brian Malarkey didn’t have lifelong professional culinary ambitions. “I actually failed at just about everything else in college,” he says, “and one day, my father said, ‘Brian, all you do is cook food for your friends, and you really don’t seem to be...
