22 Apr CPN – Hungry Magazine #15
Hungry Magazine #15: Blackbird Cooking in the Dead of the Night
This week, I sat down with Paul Kahan, the executive chef at Blackbird and Avec restaurants in Chicago. Along with Charlie Trotter and Rick Bayless, Paul Kahan and Blackbird paved the way for independent restauranteurs and played a role in defining Chicago’s current fine dining scene. Chef Kahan has won many awards, including James Beard best chef Midwest and Food and Wine best new chef in 1999. He imparts clean pure flavors in all of his dishes and is focused on craftsmanship, whether its curing or smoking meats in house, celebrating the local small family farmer, or focusing on issues of sustainability. In this interview we discuss his new gastropub concept, as well as the power of chefs, the influence of architecture on food, and whether chefs take themselves too seriously.
food, food podcast, Chicago, Paul Kahan, Blackbird, Hungry, Culinary Podcast Network, Gilded Fork