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Elizabeth Johnson's Pharm Table recipes include homegrown ingredients
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Elizabeth Johnson's Pharm Table recipes include homegrown ingredients
Sanaa Abourezk, who owns Sanaa's Gourmet Mediterranean in Sioux Falls, was considered for an award with a scope well beyond Sioux Falls: the 2023 James Beard Foundation award for best chef in the Midwest.
Marzia Coppa had an unusual reaction when her boss, the chef and owner of Dolce restaurant in Omaha, was named a semifinalist for a James Beard Award last year. The server said she was going to make sure that Anthony Kueper never won the medal, even if it meant submitting a report to the organization's ethics committee.
While Benchawan Jabthong Painter, of Houston Thai restaurant Street to Kitchen, won Best Chef: Texas, no other Texas finalists made it to the podium.
The restaurant, which won in the Outstanding Hospitality category, was the culmination of a longtime dream of Philippines-born chef/owner Marilou Ranta.