We’ve been enthusiastically following Team USA’s progress (backed by the ment’or BKB Foundation) in the Bocuse d’Or International Culinary Competition for the last five years. Late last month Team USA achieved the impossible – Gold in Lyon. Team USA’s Coach Philip Tessier and Team USA Vice President Gavin Kaysen join us to savor this tremendous achievement for the culinary arts in the United States. Both are former competitors in the Bocuse d’Or themselves.
Kudos to Team USA’s Chef Mathew Peters and Commis Harrision Turone
USA’s Team USA Vice President, Gavin Kaysen, joins us now. He is the James Beard Award-winning Executive Chef/Proprietor of Spoon & Stable in Minneapolis. On the way is the new Bellecour, on downtown Wayzata’s (Minnesota) Lake Street. It’s a French bistro which is a tribute to his French chef mentors over the years including Daniel Boulud.
Chef Gavin competed previously in the Bocuse d’Or in 2007 when he was the Executive Chef of El Bizcocho (now closed) in San Diego. This was way before the support network for Team USA from ment’or BKB Foundation was in place. He was pretty much on his own
Kaysen knows Chef Paul Bocuse, and shares some wonderful stories. You’ll learn the inspiring reason of why the America flag flies at Chef Bocuse’s landmark restaurant in Lyon.
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