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Name
  
Chris Schlesinger


Role
  
Chef

Chris Schlesinger httpswwwstarchefscomchefsCSchlesingerimage


Awards
  
James Beard Award for Best Chef: Northeast, James Beard Award for Reference and Scholarship

Nominations
  
James Beard Award for Single Subject, James Beard Award for Tools and Techniques

Books
  
The Thrill of the Grill: Techniqu, The Big‑Flavor Grill: No, License to Grill, Grill It!: Recipes - Techniqu, Let the Flames Begin

Breville chef chris schlesinger s latin spice crusted mahi mahi recipe


Chris Schlesinger is a Boston-based chef and restaurateur.

Contents

Breville the spiciest restaurant experience


Background

Born in Virginia, Schlesinger graduated from The Culinary Institute of America in 1977. The nephew of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., he started at Northeastern University but dropped out. Early jobs after graduating from CIA include being the chef at the Sakonnet Golf Club in Rhode Island.

Restaurants

In 1986, East Coast Grill opened (in Inman Square, Cambridge, since closed); in 1989, Jake and Earl's Dixie BBQ (in Cambridge, since closed) and in 1990, The Blue Room. In 1999 he opened the Back Eddy in Westport, MA, overlooking the Westport River.

Awards and honors

In 1996, Schlesinger won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef of the Northeast. He has appeared on the WGBH-TV show A Moveable Feast With Fine Cooking. He was featured on the PBS show (episode 102) of How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes On America's Chefs.

References

Chris Schlesinger Wikipedia