Diego Oka is the Executive Chef at La Mar Miami. The Chefs Connection: Did you go to culinary school?  If so, where? Diego […]

Chef Martin Schaub has been around the culinary block. Sometimes we don’t realize the expansive stories that these chef’s have. Chefs are not faceless robots just flipping burgers but evolving artists who are always learning and experiencing.

I had a chance to speak with Lorin Smaha, one of the co-owners and chef’s of Freshie’s. We talked about the competition and what winning “World’s Best Lobster Roll” was like.

My favorite thing about being a chef is the diversity of talent found in every kitchen. I’ve worked alongside chefs who might be neurosurgeons or astrophysicists if not for their food passions.

John Deloach, the executive chef of Lavo, has been working in kitchens almost non stop since he was a kid in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.