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NOLA, New Orleans, LA (Southern)

By Tony Lagana / November 11, 2021

Emeril Lagasse is a highly regarded American celebrity chef, cookbook author, and national best recipe award winner. Lagasse is also the executive chef and proprietor of thirteen restaurants in New Orleans,  Las Vegas, Orlando, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As the winner of best Southeast regional chef,  humanitarian of the year, daytime Emmy award for outstanding culinary…

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The Grey, Savannah, GA (Southern)

By Tony Lagana / July 22, 2021

Chef Mashama Bailey was born in the Bronx and raised in Queens but has family in Georgia where she  spent most of her young life. She learned to cook from her grandmother, aunts and mother during  summers in Georgia. She went on to attend ICE and then travelled to France and around the world to …

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Hot and Hot Fish Club, Birmingham, AL (Southern)

By Tony Lagana / January 18, 2021

Southern food has always been in Chef Chris Hastings blood. Even as a boy in North and South Carolina, while catching and preparing fresh fish on family vacations, his love of southern cuisine and the culinary arts was strengthening. After spending a few years in Atlanta and San Francisco as Sous Chef for various restaurants,…

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