for Serious Eats.. He’s also a cocktails and spirits expert, the former senior editor at.
Nineteen years later, she still hasn't lost her game face.You can usually spot Hong tending to the wood-burning oven at.
The Charter Oak.in St. Helena, California, stoking the logs in its fiery maw or stringing up bunches of rosemary, corncobs, and trussed haunches of meat to dangle in the smoke.Hong herself has been forged in the fire of.
Christopher Kostow.She spent five years working her way up to become the first-ever chef de cuisine at Kostow's The Restaurant at Meadowood.
So when Kostow opened this more casual restaurant nearby, she was more than ready to take the reins.At The Charter Oak, Hong draws from the same well of gorgeous Napa-grown ingredients she had access to at Meadowood, but the results here feel limber and spontaneous.
She smashes potatoes and fries them up like tostones, draping them in Mendocino seaweed, local honey, and brown butter.Parc, Philadelphia (14,819 Reviews).
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