Chef Cari Jo Cavalcante, Part 3: The tale of the ‘Paris Dish’
Everyone brings back keepsakes from a vacation, but Cari Jo Cavalcante has a whole restaurant full of mementos, thanks to one memorable trip to Paris. In the fall of 2000, the chef had no idea that she would be the owner of the Bloomsbury Bistro by the following spring. So she booked a spring tour of the French city, and two weeks after her new restaurant opened, Cavalcante was bound for Charles de Gaulle Airport, leaving a newly trained staff to keep the kitchen fires stoked. Her excitement over her new business and that trip is embodied by five-dozen little white plates and what has come to be known as the “Paris Dish.” She shares the story of the treasured dessert plates today.
On Wednesday, she talked about growing up in sniffing distance of a chocolate factory, and yesterday, she admitted that she would do just about anything to get out of eating liver and onions.
