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On today's episode of All in the Industry®, Shari Bayer's guest is Suzanne Barr, a chef, restaurateur, and advocate for marginalized people in the food industry. Suzaanne is based in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and has a new book, My Ackee Tree, A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen (out 4/5/22), which is a memoir (with recipes!) Suzanne is one of Canada’s most respected chefs, with a flair for fresh comfort food.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Chef Suzanne Barr's comfort food is an orange fruit with big black seeds that thrives in South Florida backyards.

Suzanne Barr returns to South Florida and honors Jamaican roots with her new memoir

Chef Suzanne Barr grew up in Plantation and has returned after cooking all over the world, most recently in Toronto. She has written a new book, "My Ackee Tree," which tells the story of her culinary journey, her family's path from Jamaica to North America and their Plantation home's ackee tree, which became the center of her cooking.

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The chef's favorite food and drink spots in Toronto

On episode 121 of The Line, Eli Sussman welcomed fellow HRN host (and HRN board member) Todd Richards for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of the restaurant industry. The episode was recorded in-person at the new Rockefeller Center location of Samesa (Elis restaurant) while Todd was in New York doing research for his next cookbook. As Todd and Eli are both chef/operators, they had a lot of pressing topics to cover, including opening new restaurant locations during Covid-19, manag...

Episode 119 Suzanne Barr SHARE HOSTED BY Eli Sussman On todays episode of theLINE: Chef Suzanne Barr. Suzanne was previously the Head Chef and a partner at True True Diner in Toronto, Canada, the owner of the popular restaurant Saturday Dinette, and the inaugural chef-in-residence at the Gladstone Hotel. She has participated in the James Beard Foundation Chef’s Bootcamp, been a featured speaker at the Mad Symposium in Copenhagen she was chosen as one o...

Quarantine Cuisine: The 10 most popular chef recipes of 2020 Quarantine Cuisine: The 10 most popular chef recipes of 2020 Over the past year, we asked chefs what they were cooking up at home—and then we got the the recipes grilled cheese 10 Suzanne Barr (of the excellent but now-closed True True Diner) has always loved food—a trait she inherited from her mom. Eunice Adassa Barr was an excellent cook, and while her daughter now remembers her Jamaican food most fondly, when Suzanne was ...