Margaret Pak is an artist. She uses her brain, her hands, and her human soul to create original, thought-provoking, delicious things. She doesn't need robot plagiarists to conceive and execute an egg appam with kimchi and chili oil. So I knew it wasn't he... See more
This past spring, Kathy Vega Hardy was recovering from breast cancer surgery during her busiest time of the year. 'I was out of commission for a good two and a half months,' says Vega Hardy, the chef and owner behind Jefferson Park's A Taste of the Philip... See more
Editor's note: Names in this story have been changed to protect anonymity; they are marked with an asterisk on first mention. In his youth, Ahmed* was forbidden to play on his father's farm. His mother instead insisted he concentrate on his studies at the... See more
Last week I was chatting with a chef who employed some 50 workers in the kitchen at the big, glitzy downtown steak house where he was working last fall. One day, one of his bussers pulled a no-call, no-show. Not unheard of in the industry, but this was in... See more
Marko Milunovic always brings the good stuff. At 5 PM yesterday, he set up a round of shots on the pass—quince-flavored Vojvoda Stara Rakija Dunjevaca—and about a dozen of us toasted a dream coming true before our eyes. With that Milunovic turned to the l... See more
