'It's a huge honor. It's like the Oscars of the food world.'
Good luck getting a reservation at. One of its chefs has an impressive new accolade and he sat down with CBS 2's Noel Brennan to talk about Southern American comfort food.
"You know, a restaurant kind of shapes itself over time, so I think that it's maturing nicely I am the Chef de Cuisine at Virtue Restaurant where we are now.""I didn't really get any sleep, but I'm not tired. I feel good."Monday night at the Lyric Opera, Damarr Brown took home to Hyde Park the James Beard Award for"Emerging Chef."The award is given each year to a talented chef, likely to make a significant impact in the years to come.
"Yeah, I was raised by three wonderful women. My mother, Trena, my aunt, Inga, and my grandmother, Arlenem" Brown said, saying he spent a lot of time in the kitchen. "They kept tight rings on me, so I would be in the kitchen next to them and helping them peel potatoes and picking green beans and all that kind of stuff," Brown said."I've never been able to cook food like this, the food that I grew up eating, the food that I saw my grandmother cooking. I've also never gotten to cook for somebody who looked like me," added Brown.
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