SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Springs chef Jeannette Liebers had a win and a loss on Thursday night’s episode of “Beat Bobby Flay." Liebers, the owner of Sweet…
Table Hopping By Steve Barnes, senior writer on April 29, 2021 at 12:51 PM
Jeannette B. Liebers, the chef-owner of
Sweet Mimi’s Cafe & Bakeryin Saratoga Springs, will be featured on an episode of “Beat Bobby Flay” that airs at 8 p.m. today (4/29), repeating at midnight. She will battle Chris Bonnivier, former head chef at The Adelphi Hotel in Saratoga, in a brunch cook-off, the winner of which advances to compete against Flay.
The episode, titled “
The Battle for Saratoga,” was shot in fall 2019, according to a Food Network representative, but its debut was delayed by the pandemic.
Coincidentally, another Capital Region chef will be on a different Food Network Show tonight as well. Kizzy Williams, owner of Allie B’s Cozy Kitchen in Albany, will be on “Chef Boot Camp”
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Inset: Saratoga Springs chefs Jeannette Liebers and Chris Bonnivier. (provided/YouTube)
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The national spotlight will be shining on Saratoga Thursday night (April 29).
Spa City chefs Jeannette Liebers and Chris Bonnivier will go head to head on Food Network’s “Beat Bobby Flay” in an episode called “The Battle for Saratoga.”
The episode, which airs at 8 p.m., is years in the making. For Liebers, who is the owner/executive chef of Sweet Mimi’s Cafe and Bakery, it started in the summer of 2019. She’d always hoped that Flay would visit the cafe and in August of 2019, he stopped in for breakfast with some of her regular summer customers. He ordered a classic Saratoga sandwich (consisting of a homemade biscuit, sausage patty, Vermont cheddar cheese and eggs). After Flay was done with the meal, Liebers said she went out to greet him and give him a challenge.
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Sookyung Lee, a Niskayuna resident and the founder of Ppang Bakery, spent years trying to pin down the exact recipe for the milk bread she remembered eating as a child in South Korea.
“Then during quarantine … I was cooking up a storm and finally, I found this recipe for milk bread and I tried it, and it was very close. I had to tweak [it] a little bit, but I was so happy about it,” Lee said.
After recreating the sweet flavor and soft texture of the white bread she grew up enjoying, Lee recently began offering it to others in the Capital Region through Ppang Bakery.
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