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11 September 2021 at 14 : 32 PM
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COVER STORY Meet three women at the top of their game in the kitchen and beyond. By Michael Kaminer Chef Maria LoiMaria TampakisChristina Xenos It seems almost quaint to bring up gender in our industry. But only a quarter of chefs in the U.S. are female, according to recent data. And as recent reckonings around bad behavior have ...
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9 February 2020 at 11 : 19 AM
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Christos Bisiotis EGEO, ASTORIA, NY Chef Christos Bisiotis is preparing to open Egeo, a traditional Greek eatery located at 31-01 34th Avenue in Astoria, NY Christos Bisiotis recently celebrated his 13th year in the United States. “I arrived here on Christmas Day in 2007,” he says, “because that was the day that had the cheapest flights.” ...
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18 January 2020 at 09 : 10 AM
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Gregory Zapantis MOLOS RESTAURANT, WEEHAWKEN, NJ During his longtime tenure at Manhattan’s Kellari Taverna, Chef Gregory Zapantis schooled dozens of then-budding chefs in the fine art of Greek cuisine. To a significant extent, it’s those chefs who have fueled the expansion of Greek cuisine, joining his mission to redeem and elevate it from ...
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10 September 2019 at 03 : 12 AM
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Christos Christou YEFSI, NEW YORK CITY; ANEMMOS, ASTORIA Raised in a small town outside Nicosia, Cyprus, Chef Christos Christou learned to cook at the side of his mother and grandmother from a young age. After arriving in New York in the mid-’80s, he enrolled in the French Culinary Institute and took his first job at the Institute’s restaurant, ...
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10 July 2019 at 03 : 44 AM
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AGE: 33 HAILS FROM: Peloponnese, Greece NUMBER OF YEARS IN KITCHENS: 11 NUMBER OF YEARS IN U.S. KITCHENS: 4 months PREVIOUS RESTAURANTS: || Kypriotis Panorama (Kos) || Hilton (Kos) || Lithos (Santorini) || Cava Alta (Santorini) || Black Rose (Santorini) || ...
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