While the Beard Award activities have been on all weekend, our first dive in was at a panel discussion and brunch at Kendell College, the top culinary school in Chicago. The co-hosts for the panel discussion were Rick Bayless and his fellow The Feed podcast host, Steve Dolinsky. The panel was manned (and womaned) by an esteemed crew of chefs , all Beard nominated, in for the weekend.
The audience was mostly students from the school all starry eyed and ready to be the next chef sensation. The questions ran from 'when did you know you were destined for a career in food' to 'what mistakes have you made and what did you learn'. They all chuckled at the second question presumably because they had too many to choose from.
After the panel presentation, we were treated to brunch. Stations were set up around the hall and award winning chefs presented brunch offerings. Quail eggs were quite popular, making an appearance on hash, biscuits and gravy and an Asian offering that was darn tasty. What a wonderful way to start our food coma weekend.
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