Local chefs are making high-profile appearances this fall
Three area chefs will be traveling outside of Missouri this autumn to show off their cooking prowess in different venues. Howard Hanna, executive chef and co-owner of the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, will be one of the featured chefs of the State Room restaurant in Michigan on November 9 and 10; the event is part of the restaurant’s visiting chef series. The State Room is on the campus of Michigan State University in the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center.
Julian Restaurant’s chef-owner Celina Tio will join other celebrity chefs in Los Angeles on September 21 when the American Association of Retired Persons hosts its annual Life@50+ Expo; one of the expo events is an opportunity for award-winning chefs to work together to feed the homeless community that lives in and around the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood known, historically, as Skid Row.
Fat City also checked in with Jonathan Justus, chef-owner of the celebrated Justus Drugstore in Smithville, who will be one of the featured chefs at a “gastronomic tour of American regional cuisine” at a dinner — held in honor of Steve Plotnicki’s new guidebook, Opinionated About U.S. Restaurants 2011 –– scheduled for next week at Tom Colicchio’s Craft restaurant in New York City.
