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Join us for Kevin Sullivan’s 19th Anniversary

Join us for Kevin Sullivan’s 19th Anniversary

Please join us for the celebration of Kevin Sullivan’s 19th birthday/anniversary at Tsunami restaurant, Monday, June 14th at 6:00 PM. Kevin will be headlining the event as Executive chef, and Ben Smith will be his Sous chef for the evening. Kevin’s menu will include...

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All the World’s a Stagiaire

This past week we hosted an intern at Tsunami as part of a mentoring exercise through Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School. Stagiaire is a French term that refers to a cook who works a brief, unpaid stint in another chef’s kitchen. It can also refer to a trainee or...

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Surf’s Up

On a spring day in 1998, I sat down at the bar in a restaurant in the Cooper-Young neighborhood and wrote a check for $10,000. I had never written a check that large in my life. My hand was shaking and I was nervous that I would place the comma in the wrong spot....

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My Culinary Library

No matter if it’s a stack of well-worn basics that they carry with them from place to place or a vast collection of never-cracked coffee table tomes, every chef worth their salt has a cookbook collection. Some people collect these books simply for the sake of...

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