If You Were a Hashtag What Would You Be?

A signature dish may define a chef’s style, but in this increasingly digital age, social-media rhetoric can be as illustrative as a menu. We talked with some of the esteemed Beard Award–winning chefs who will be cooking at this year’s festivities to find out how they would define themselves in one tidy hashtag.

Grant Achatz
Alinea, Next, Aviary, and Roister, Chicago
#sorted

Joanne Chang
Flour Bakery + Cafe and Myers + Chang, Boston
#alwaysthinkingaboutfood

Greg Denton
Ox Restaurant, Portland, OR
#dogfather

Vinny Dotolo
Animal, Los Angeles
#fusionfoodisbackbutitneverleft

Renee Erickson
The Whale Wins, Seattle
#imreadyforwine

Meg Galus
Boka, Chicago
#chocolateistheanswer

Dahlia Narvaez
Mozza Restaurant Group, Los Angeles
#pickuppastry

Tandy Wilson
City House, Nashville
#thereshouldbeasausageemoji

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