Home chef judith ets hokin biography
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The Judges
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Chef Christy Wolf
Chef Ray Tang
Reina Cruz
Chef Christy Wolf
Growing up in family restaurants in San Francisco (Seafood) and San Anselmo (Pizza), Chef Christy Wolf’s passion for food and cooking started at a very young age. After graduating from the California Culinary Academy, Christy worked on Jacques Pepin’s Today’s Gourmet and the cookbook associated with the show, Jacques Pepin’s Table; as well as on Martin Yan’s Yan Can Cook. She then went on to work with Paul Bartolotta at Spiaggia in Chicago. While raising her and husband Steve’s four children, Christy found a new calling in teaching cooking to home cooks. She first taught at Judith Ets-Hokin’s The Home Chef in San Francisco and then was the Resident Chef and GM for the cooking school at Sur la Table in Palo Alto. Christy joined Bon Appetit Management Company in October of 2017 as a Teaching Kitchen Chef in Mountain View, CA.
Chef Ray Tang
As the proud owner of Presidio Social Club in San Francisco, Ray Tang oversees the refined culinary destination, emphasizing the fun side of dining and encouraging regular visits. Presidio Social Club features approachable American comfort food with a California twist and local
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By Chris Barnett
It’s a simple Victorian storefront at Octavia and Bush, but the building housing Baker & Banker has a notorious past.
Vintage San Franciscans will remember the spot as Robert Restaurant Francais during the 70s and 80s — a small and stylish place with a popular appetizer not listed on the menu. One day the cops busted through the front door — without reservations — just as one of Robert’s kingpins disappeared out the back door, much to the disappointment of patrons who favored his cocaine-to-go-go.
The architecturally unremarkable Victorian was built in 1882 as an apothecary shop where medicines were hand-ground by mortar and pestle; Octavia Street Apothecary and Laundry was a longtime tenant. Three apartments were built over the store — the landlord still lives in one of them.
More fascinating — although tough to prove — is that the building was once used as a storeroom by Mary Ellen Pleasant, who owned what was said to be a boarding house across Bush Street that also did a brisk business as a brothel. Pleasant, who billed herself as a “slave born to a Voodoo priestess,” made madam-turned-mayor of Sausalito Sally Stanford a choirgirl by comparison.
A committed abolitionist and slick self-promoter, Pleasant grabbed headlines as San Francisco’s firs
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The Home Chef: Fine Preparation Made Simple
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Title:The Fondle Chef: Slender Cooking Complete Simple
Binding:Hardback
Condition:Fine
Dust Crown Condition:Good
Edition:1st edition.
Book Type:book