Chef Andrea Beaman: Vibrant Approach to Cooking and Eating

by Chef's Garden | May 30, 2017 | Food & Cooking

It was illness and loss that first inspired Andrea Beaman, one of our presenters at this year’s Roots conference, to explore a new route to eating and living. It was after she witnessed her mother pass away from cancer after first enduring painful medical procedures...

Chef John Folse Inspires Attendees at Roots 2016

by Chef's Garden | May 25, 2017 | Culinary Conferences

Chef John Folse begins his Roots presentation by posing a question: how does a person in the culinary field start out? How would he or she go from dreaming about building a restaurant or adding catering services to actually creating and growing the business – and,...

Current Food Trend: Delicious, Nutritious and Colorful Purple Foods

by Chef's Garden | May 19, 2017 | Food Trends

“Purple is . . . the most powerful wavelength of the rainbow – and it’s a color with a powerful history . . . purple symbolizes magic, mystery, spirituality, the sub-conscious, creativity, dignity, royalty – and it evokes all of these meanings more so than any other...

Versatility of Fresh Asparagus

by Chef's Garden | May 2, 2017 | Vegetables

Signs of spring are everywhere, from glorious blooms on trees to robins singing at dawn, and from sunshine-yellow daffodils to the first harvests of asparagus. “And it’s really amazing,” says Culinary Vegetable Institute Chef Matt Ward, “how forcefully the asparagus...

Citrus Lace: Undiscovered Beauty

by Chef's Garden | Apr 17, 2017 | Food & Cooking

There are many moments that we recall fondly about the iconic chef Ferran Adria’s visit to The Chef’s Garden. He was a marvel in his curiosity and the seemingly insatiable interest he had in our vegetables. Everything he saw, smelled and tasted seemed to fill him with...