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Our culinary creativity catches up (Video 1)
Mississippi has long been known as cradle of creative culture. 2014 has been proclaimed the Year of the Creative Economy. As a member of Mississippi’s culinary scene, and a business owner who considers what I do a valuable part of the Creative Economy, I’ve overjoyed to see Mississippi’s creative culinary product beginning to get its…
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Twitter Forum 6/16, 7PM
The culinary product is a very important part of any region’s creative economy. Yet, I believe, it is often overlooked. As Jackson in specific and Mississippi as a whole concentrate on both promoting the creative economy and building a culinary product, I believe we must position our restaurants and chefs as valuable components of the…
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Hangin’ with Andrew Zimmern
Thought you might like to check this out. A couple of years ago Andrew Zimmern (the Bizarre Foods guy) was on a project called “Appetite for Life” and came to Jackson to interview the restaurant community about our efforts for The Miracle League organization. Sooo…. I ended up hangin’ with Andrew for a good part…
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Let’s start at the beginning
To quote a certain Austrian nanny (since Austria does share a border with Italy), let’s start at the beginning, a very good place to start. My profession as a chef and restaurateur of an Italian Trattoria did not naturally evolve from a lifetime obsession with Italian food, or from deep Italian family roots. It came…
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