PrintA Spice Exploration: Oleana Comes To The James Beard House
[Photo: Carey Jones]
Chef Ana Sortun is no stranger to spice. Chef and owner of Boston's Oleana and the James Beard 2005 Best Chef: Northeast, she has won numerous accolades for her daring Mediterranean-inspired cooking, drawing in spices and flavors both traditional and experimental.
And in a dinner of pairings, there may be no better pair than Chef Sortun and Lior Lev Sercarz, himself a seasoned chef and owner of La Boîte à Epice. Sercarz provides custom spice blends for numerous chefs, sourcing from across the globe and crafting his own flavors to complement their work. Armed with a selection of Sercarz's spices, Sortun along with Oleana's chef de cuisine Cassie Kyriakides Piuma and pastry chef Maura Kilpatrick created a truly memorable seven course meal at New York's James Beard House.
Our photo gallery, after the jump.
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3 Comments:
Speaking of spices, I absolutely love Ana Sortun's cookbook.
shoneyjoe at 6:54PM on 11/09/09
Drool! Every single course looks and sounds wonderful. WANT!
jackiecat at 7:33PM on 11/09/09
I also love her cookbook.
Ana is very much a farm to table chef. She and her husband, Chris Kurth own Siena Farms– named for their daughter. Serious Eats readers have read Chris in a couple of my Market Scene reports.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/10/boston-massachusetts-farmers-markets-open-late-season-november.html
In this one he talks about how they inspire and challenge one another.
http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/06/market_scene_copley_square_market_in_boston_1.html
BostonZest at 9:17PM on 11/09/09