Director Steven Horn talks with Chef Michael Adams from Historic Hotel Bethlehem. He grew up in Hometown, northwest of Tamaqua, where his family farmed their own vegetables, canned fruits, made jellies and jams and baked bread. He knew then that cooking was what he was meant to do. He received formal training at the Culinary Institute of America but credits his parents with instilling a strong foundation and understanding of food and the cooking process.
Episode #5 Chefs Uncut: Ellen Yin
Director, Steven Horn, talks with Ellen Yin the founder and co-owner of High Street Hospitality Group. Restaurants include Fork, the flagship restaurant, A.Kitchen + Bar, and High Street (multiple locations). She is also the author of Forklore: Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro (Temple University Press, 2007), a chronicle of her ongoing success at creating and maintaining a definitive American bistro in Philadelphia’s historic Old City.
Episode #4 Chefs Uncut: Chef Jonathan Cartwright
Director, Steven Horn, talks with Chef Jonathan Cartwright of Musette by Jonathan Cartwright. Originally from Yorkshire, England, Chef Cartwright has been at home in the kitchen since age 15. This Relais & Châteaux chef has worked all over the world garnering many esteemed accolades. He currently owns Musette in Maine. Prior to his culinary career, he aspired to be the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France. Still an avid cyclist he can be seen riding around Maine with the likes of Patrick Dempsey.
Episode #3 Chefs Uncut: Chef Lee Chizmar
Director, Steven Horn, talks with Chef Lee Chizmar of Bolete, Mister Lee’s Noodles & Silvershell Counter + Kitchen. Chef Lee Chizmar originally from Allentown, Penn., Lee has always had a strong relationship with food, ever since his introduction to oysters (still his favorite food…and their 4-year-old’s as well!). His love for, appreciation of, and dedication to serving locally grown, seasonal ingredients is incomparable.
Episode #2 Chefs Uncut: Xavier Teixido
Director, Steven Horn, talks with Xavier Teixido whose restaurant career has taken him from the Brandywine Racetrack in Wilmington to Commander’s Palace in New Orleans and back to Wilmington with Harry's Savoy Grill & Kid Shelleen's.