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Culinary Characters Unlocked

Culinary Characters Unlocked

Emmy Winner, International Acclaimed Journalist, Executive Producer, Food & Travel Lover, and Creator of the Beloved show “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives” David Page takes us deep into the world of chefs, restaurateurs, and everything “foodie” from the nationally and internationally awarded to the locally loved on Culinary Characters Unlocked. New episode every Tuesday.

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00:38:32

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – ADRIAN MILLER - EP 32

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2025/03/04

Called the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller is renowned for his knowledge of African American and southern cooking. Author of multiple books, he won James Beard awards for two of them: Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, and Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. Yet culinary history was not his original career path. He was a lawyer, worked for the Clinton White House, and then for the governor of Colorado, before turning to

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00:45:43

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - KATIE BUTTON - EP 31

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2025/02/25

Chef Katie Button is a James Beard winner for her Asheville, North Carolina Spanish restaurant Cúrate, which is the flagship of her restaurant group. Button discovered her deep love for food when she was living in Paris, studying for a master’s degree in biomedical engineering. The awakening was so profound that she changed careers, worked for two of the world’s greatest chefs, Ferran Adrià and José Andrés, before opening tapas-based Cúrate, then building a culinary empire that includes a Catalonian

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00:42:26

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEFS MELISSA REAGAN...

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2025/02/18

Melissa Reagan and Stephen Gonzalez met at Culinary School in Austin, Texas two decades ago, then followed their own culinary journeys through a variety of restaurants. Today she’s cooking at an upscale restaurant in North Carolina (but by contract she can’t name it) and with supermarkets challenging many restaurants by offering meals cooked on site, he is working for the H-E-B grocery chain, a major player in Texas. Both feel deeply about getting average folks cooking at home. Which is the impetus

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00:32:45

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – NOK SUNTARANON – EP 29

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2025/02/11

Nok Suntaranon remembers eating like royalty growing up inThailand, even though her family was poor, thanks to her mother’s skills in the kitchen. And it’s the food of her childhood that she is cooking at her Philadelphia restaurant Kalaya, named for her mom, which she did not open untilthe age of 50. She had been enjoying life as a housewife but says there’s only so much Pilates, yoga, and lunching a person can do. Just a few years later, she won the 2023 James Beard Award as best chef in the

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00:40:29

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF MATT VAWTER – EP 28

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2025/02/04

Named the 2024 James Beard Awards best chef in the mountain region, Matt Vawter began his culinary education going to restaurants with his grandparents and being taken into the kitchen to meet the chef. He got his first cooking job at the age of fourteen and worked his way up to big success in his hometown. Born in the Breckenridge, Colorado area, Vawter began culinary school while still in high school, cut his teeth in Denver working for celebrated chef Alex Seidel, then came back to Breckenridge

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00:36:40

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF VICTORIA SHORE –...

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2025/01/28

Victoria Shore grew up in an adventurous culinary family(few American kids fall in love with Basque food but she did) and ended up cooking professionally because she could not get the job she wanted, culinary journalist, without kitchen experience. She’s always loved to cook—she was the kid making French fries in her dorm room—and has now worked her way up from positions in catering and restaurants to become the Executive Chef of all the restaurants at the Thompson Savannah Hotel in Savannah,

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00:42:56

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEF MICHAEL GULOTTA -...

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2025/01/21

Born and raised in New Orleans, Michael Gulotta began cooking for his family at the age of nine. He grew up to attend culinary school in his hometown, then trained under legendary chefs in Europe, before coming back to N’awlins and opening three restaurants that combine, to varying degrees, Asian, Italian, Cajun, and Creole flavors. He is a five-time James Beard Award semifinalist who has drawn raves from the most esteemed culinary publications. And he runs “no yelling, please-and-thank-you”

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00:35:22

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – AMELIE KANG – EP 25

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2025/01/14

Amelie Kang grew up in northern China, moved to Beijing, and then to the U.S., where she graduated from the Culinary Institute of America. She worked for Michelin starred chefs, before going on to open the Málà Project in New York, where she offers food as eaten in China, and a more upscale dining experience than the typical American Chinese restaurant. Which makes her a pioneer in the movement being called Chinese 2.0.

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00:37:39

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL –...

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2025/01/07

Despite never having trained as a chef, Christopher Kimballhas taught millions of Americans how to become better home cooks. He started a magazine devoted to perfecting recipes, turned that into the America’s Test Kitchen media empire, then moved on to found another, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, which includes a magazine, a TV show, a podcast, cookbooks, and more, and has expanded Kimball’s work to perfecting recipes from many other countries.

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00:35:04

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – EP 23 – MARISSA...

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2024/12/31

Born in Mexico, Marissa Gencarelli was working a corporate job and had never run a culinary business, when she and her husband opened a Tortilleria in Kansas City. Using traditional methods, combined with creative brilliance, their Yoli Tortilleria won the 2023 James Beard Award as America’s Outstanding Bakery.

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00:33:01

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF NICHOLAS BAZIK –...

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2024/12/24

Budding academic turned touring musician turned chef turned restaurateur, Nicholas Bazik is striving for the top of the culinary world at his new restaurant Provenance, which is shaking up the food world in Philadelphia amid his audacious claim that there’s never been a restaurant like this in that city before, and where standards and equipment are so high that chefs are clamoring for a job there. And wait ‘til he tells you about his Rolls Royce of ovens!

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00:36:36

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF MATTHEW GRAY – EP 21

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2024/12/17

Chef Matthew Gray’s wild ride through life landed him in paradise. From touring with legendary rock bands in his youth, to studying at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in London, cooking for the stars in Hollywood, reviewing restaurants for Hawaii’s biggest newspaper, running food tours in Hawaii, and now hosting his own podcast, 50 tastes of Gray. Our conversation ranged from the real reason celebrities hire private chefs to the delights of Spam musubi.

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00:30:23

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF BJ DENNIS - EP 20

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2024/12/10

Charleston Chef BJ Dennis is a rare voice in the food world,an authority on Gullah Geechee cooking. That’s the cuisine created by enslaved West Africans who were brought to the American coastal south to farm rice. Some Gullah Geechee dishes have become well known, such as shrimp and grits, but others are relatively obscure nationally. Chef Dennis explains the food and the cultural history behind it.

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00:40:24

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – THE BUSALACCHI...

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2024/12/03

Joe Busalacchi came to America from Sicily as a child and grew up to share his family recipes with a legion of fans through an empire of restaurants in his adopted hometown of San Diego. And it’s truly a family business, with Joe’s sons and nephew helping him continue his passion of serving the food he grew up with. And the menu is full of surprises, as was our conversation with the Busalacchi family.

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00:36:59

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – CHEF PREETI WAAS - EP 18

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2024/11/26

Born in southern India and with no culinary training, Preeti Waas is a two- time James beard award nominee for the Indian home cooking she dishes up at her restaurant Cheeni in Durham, North Carolina. And she says 90 percent of that menu consists of dishes that cannot be found at most Indian restaurants here. She also offers a history lesson on some of India’s most popular foods, and their roots in Scotland and Portugal.

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00:38:18

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – GREGORY GOURDET - EP 17

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2024/11/19

He’s won three James Beard Awards in a row—Best Cookbook, Best Restaurant, and the 2024 award as Best Chef in the Northwest. He trained at the Culinary Institute of America, was mentored by the legendary Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and cooked various Asian cuisines before opening Kann in Portland, featuring Caribbean cuisine and spotlighting the Haitian dishes he grew up on.

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00:38:37

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – ZIGGY GRUBER - EP 16

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2024/11/12

Born into a prominent delicatessen-owning family in New York and trained in London, where he worked at a Michelin three-star restaurant, Ziggy Gruber has become deli royalty in, of all places, Texas. His restaurant, Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen, is among the very best in the country, serving up a massive menu of traditional deli and Jewish food, alongside his own take on American favorites such as sushi.

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00:43:07

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED – PAUL SMITH - EP 15

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2024/11/05

Classically trained at the Culinary Institute of America, Chef Paul Smith won the 2024 James Beard Award as Best Chef in the Southeast for his work at his 1010 Bridge restaurant in Charleston, West Virginia. It’s the first James Beard Award ever brought home to that state, where Smith was born, then returned after cooking at a wide range of fine dining restaurants across the country. He combines traditional Appalachian cuisine with an envelope-pushing creativity.

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00:47:04

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED –MARTHA SANDERS HOOVER -...

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2024/10/29

After law school and a stint as a sex crimes prosecutor, pregnant with her third child, and with no experience in theculinary business, Martha Sanders Hoover decided to open a restaurant. Now she has a dozen in and around Indianapolis. A pioneer in farm to table, with a deep commitment to employee happiness, and giving back to the community, she is a six-time James Beard semi-finalist, one of Food & Wine Magazine’s “Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink,” and a force of nature.

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00:41:21

CULINARY CHARACTERS UNLOCKED - CHEF JOHN SHIELDS - EP 13

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2024/10/22

Chef John Shields and his wife, Chef Karen Uri Shields, recently won a third Michelin Star for their Chicago restaurant Smyth, while their other restaurant (in the same building) the Loyalist has been cited as serving the best burger in that city. He discusses their journey together, the restaurant in a small Virginia town that put them on the map, and being mentored by both Charlie Trotter and Grant Achatz.

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