Notes from the Week in Toqueland (February 2 – February 9, 2018)

Notes from the Week in Toqueland (February 2 – February 9, 2018)
A selection of amusing and/or poignant moments from coast to coast that I couldn’t fit into my new book
Notes on the Week in Toqueland (January 27 – February 2)
The Menlo Park Icon on the Role of Hippies; Knowing How the Grapes are Grown; What’s In a Name; and “Cooker People”
Notes on the Week in Toqueland: Thoughts on the Oscar-Nominated Documentary Knife Skills, more eulogies for Paul Bocuse, and Restaurant Criticism Amid The Reckoning
Thoughts on Cooking and Immortality As We Say Goodbye to Paul Bocuse, and Remember Michael Roberts
A Chefs Deliver Run with Citymeals on Wheels Reveals the Stories Behind the Benefits
Aquavit’s Executive Chef on Why She Came to New York, the Value of Collaboration, How She Spends Her Sundays, and the Topic that Won’t Go Away
The Story Behind Philly Chef (and onetime Top Chef champ) Kevin Sbraga’s New Jacksonville, Florida, Restaurant Sbraga & Company
The Chef of Take Root on Time Away, the Intersection of Art and Cooking, and Forging Her Own Path
Two of New York City’s Rising Chefs on Pushing Themselves, Young Success, Kitchen Collaboration, and Restaurant Lifespans
Chef Gabriel Kreuther Has Been Thrust into the Role of Traditional Fine Dining’s Savior. His Thoughts on What That Means and Where It’s Headed.