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Gala Chef Q & A: JBF Award Winner Aarón Sánchez

by JBF Editors on May 06, 2013

JBF Award winner Aarón Sánchez

 

JBF Award Winner Aarón Sánchez, Mestizo, Leawood, KS

 

What’s your go-to guilty-pleasure food?

Fried chicken.

 

What’s your favorite movie, and why?

Rocky, because it’s all about the underdog.

 

Describe the last great meal you ate.

My last great meal was at chef John Besh’s restaurant August in New Orleans. We had just about everything on the menu, but the real standouts were the potato gnocchi, the seafood, and all the meat dishes.

 

What’s the dish you’re most proud of?

The grilled mahi-mahi tacos at Mestizo.

 

What’s your earliest food memory?

Making tortillas with my mom when I was 12.

 

What do you eat for breakfast?

Eggs Benedict. My favorite is with Swiss chard and smoked bacon.

 

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Eye Candy: NYCWFF at JBF

by jbfauthor on October 13, 2010

Here are our favorite snaps from our weekend with the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival. We'll be posting galleries for each of the three dinners, so stay tuned!

The Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival at the James Beard Foundation

Marcela Valladolid finishes shooters of Mexican corn soup with a morita chile gastrique during Holy Mole

The Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival at the James Beard Foundation

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On the Menu: October 3 through October 9

by jbfauthor on October 01, 2010

Walking up the Beard House back stairs Here’s what’s happening at the Beard House and around the country next week: Monday, October 4, 7:00 P.M. Bay Area Asian All-Stars The San Francisco Bay Area has long been home to some of the best Asian cuisine in the country. These days, much of the credit is due to the cooking of this esteemed group of chefs, who will be joining us at the Beard House for an extraordinary showcase dinner. Tuesday, October 5, 7:00 P.M. Hawaiian Surf and Turf In the not-always-temperate climes of the Windy City, the Hawaiian-inspired cuisine at Sola is a welcome oasis. Run by California native and self-proclaimed “surfer girl” Carol Wallack along with chef de cuisine Aleksiy Shalev, the critically lauded Sola features Pacific Rim

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Aaron Sanchez on the red carpet at the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards

by jbfauthor on May 04, 2009

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The Big Names Arrive on the Red Carpet

by jbfauthor on May 04, 2009

What do the country's best chefs eat for breakfast on the biggest day of the year? Snack blogger Jennifer Leuzzi finds out on the red carpet at Avery Fisher Hall before the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards.

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