Homaro Cantu, a successful celebrity chef, was found dead in a Chicago building on Tuesday afternoon, and authorities are currently investigating the death of the 38-year-old. Homaro Cantu Dies In Apparent Suicide Cantu was reportedly found dead of hanging around 1 p.m. at a Chicago building where the chef had planned on opening a brewery. […]
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- 4/15/2015
- by Olivia Truffaut
- Uinterview
Homaro Cantu, an accomplished food tech chef based in Chicago, was found dead Tuesday. He was 38 years old. Per the Chicago Tribune, police sources said Cantu was found hanging and his death is being investigated as a suicide. The Cook County medical examiner's office said an autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday. Cantu's wife, chef Katie McGowan, posted a picture to Facebook of the late restauranteur and asked that mourners remember his charitable nature. "Among his many gifts, he was the most generous person I ever met," she wrote, according to NBC News. "If you are one of the many many who asked him for a favor, or help, I am positive he made a phone call on your behalf, or found you a job, or...
- 4/15/2015
- E! Online
Homaro Cantu has died at age 38, Chicago's Wgn-tv reports. The beloved chef was found dead of an apparent suicide on Tuesday, April 14. Authorities say that Homaro was hanging in the building where he wanted to open a brewery on the northwest side of Chicago. His autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday. Cantu has appeared in several cooking shows in the past, including Hell's Kitchen, Iron Chef, and Dinner Impossible. In 2010, he produced his own series titled Future Food. He was also best known for his molecular [...]...
- 4/15/2015
- Us Weekly
Legendary Chicago chef Charlie Trotter passed away at the age of 54 on Tuesday (November 5).
The Chicago fire department shared the news with NBC, after the chef was transported to Northwestern Hospital. He was reportedly found unresponsive in his North Side home and taken into critical condition before being pronounced dead.
According to close family friend Carrie Nahabedian, Charlie’s wife Rochelle simply told her, “My baby’s gone.”
Trotter owned one of the most famous restaurants in the world, located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, and several of the country’s top chefs worked under him including Graham Elliot, Homaro Cantu and Grant Achatz.
The Chicago fire department shared the news with NBC, after the chef was transported to Northwestern Hospital. He was reportedly found unresponsive in his North Side home and taken into critical condition before being pronounced dead.
According to close family friend Carrie Nahabedian, Charlie’s wife Rochelle simply told her, “My baby’s gone.”
Trotter owned one of the most famous restaurants in the world, located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, and several of the country’s top chefs worked under him including Graham Elliot, Homaro Cantu and Grant Achatz.
- 11/5/2013
- GossipCenter
Charlie Trotter, one of the best-known chefs in America, died Tuesday (Nov. 5) in Chicago.
The 54-year-old Trotter was found unconscious at his home Tuesday morning and pronounced dead at a hospital shortly afterward. No cause of death was given.
Trotter opened his eponymous restaurant in Chicago in 1987 and quickly became well-known locally for his outstanding food and exacting standards in the kitchen. National acclaim and awards soon followed; he and his restaurant won several James Beard Awards, and Charlie Trotter's made numerous lists of the best restaurants in the United States and the world before closing in 2012. He also had restaurants in Las Vegas and Los Cabos, Mexico.
He also hosted a PBS cooking series, "The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter," and had a cameo as a chef in the 1997 movie "My Best Friend's Wedding." Trotter wrote or co-wrote 14 cookbooks
Charlie Trotter's was also the training ground for a number of younger chefs,...
The 54-year-old Trotter was found unconscious at his home Tuesday morning and pronounced dead at a hospital shortly afterward. No cause of death was given.
Trotter opened his eponymous restaurant in Chicago in 1987 and quickly became well-known locally for his outstanding food and exacting standards in the kitchen. National acclaim and awards soon followed; he and his restaurant won several James Beard Awards, and Charlie Trotter's made numerous lists of the best restaurants in the United States and the world before closing in 2012. He also had restaurants in Las Vegas and Los Cabos, Mexico.
He also hosted a PBS cooking series, "The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter," and had a cameo as a chef in the 1997 movie "My Best Friend's Wedding." Trotter wrote or co-wrote 14 cookbooks
Charlie Trotter's was also the training ground for a number of younger chefs,...
- 11/5/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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Chris Jones and Richie Farina are chefs at Moto, a fine dining restaurant in Chicago that focuses on innovative and futuristic cuisine. They are both contestants on this season of "Top Chef: Texas." After attending Johnson and Wales University, Farina, the executive sous chef, started cooking in several Boston restaurants, and then joined Moto in 2008. In his spare time, he trains in mixed martial arts, a mixture of Ju Jistu wrestling and boxing. Jones, got his start cooking in his grandmother's kitchen. After working his way up the ladder in several restaurants, Jones is now the chef de cuisine of Moto. He lives with his wife and young daughter,...
Chris Jones and Richie Farina are chefs at Moto, a fine dining restaurant in Chicago that focuses on innovative and futuristic cuisine. They are both contestants on this season of "Top Chef: Texas." After attending Johnson and Wales University, Farina, the executive sous chef, started cooking in several Boston restaurants, and then joined Moto in 2008. In his spare time, he trains in mixed martial arts, a mixture of Ju Jistu wrestling and boxing. Jones, got his start cooking in his grandmother's kitchen. After working his way up the ladder in several restaurants, Jones is now the chef de cuisine of Moto. He lives with his wife and young daughter,...
- 11/30/2011
- by Carey Polis
- Huffington Post
Gina Melcher has become the latest contestant to leave Hell's Kitchen. The restaurant consultant from Cape May, NJ was eliminated by Gordon Ramsay on Monday night following communication problems with the rest of her team during the dinner service. Chef Ramsay told her that she was "disintegrating" and "not fighting back" when he ignored the contestants' nominations and booted her from the show over Elise, Krupa, Monterray and Tommy. Protein Challenge This week's episode opens with a protein challenge observed by Ben Roche and Homaro Cantu from Moto. Chef Ramsay tells the cooks that great chefs can do amazing things with very little equipment and today's challenge is all about fire and water. They must prepare a string of proteins by steaming, boiling or poaching - all other methods of preparation are banned. Unfortunately for (more)...
- 8/2/2011
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
Filed under: Summer TV, TV Replay
The contestants got a fun break from the competition on 'Hell's Kitchen' (Mon., 8Pm Et on Fox) when Ben Roche and Homaro Cantu came over from Moto Restaurant in Chicago to show them some of their fun fusions of science with the culinary arts.
!!Spoiler Alert!!
After the demonstration of liquefying an orange with sound waves and freezing ice cream in 45 seconds with liquid nitrogen, the contestants had to get down to business. Science is fun and Ramsay wanted to see what they could do with the barest of minimums. So prepare a meat dish with water and fire only.
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The contestants got a fun break from the competition on 'Hell's Kitchen' (Mon., 8Pm Et on Fox) when Ben Roche and Homaro Cantu came over from Moto Restaurant in Chicago to show them some of their fun fusions of science with the culinary arts.
!!Spoiler Alert!!
After the demonstration of liquefying an orange with sound waves and freezing ice cream in 45 seconds with liquid nitrogen, the contestants had to get down to business. Science is fun and Ramsay wanted to see what they could do with the barest of minimums. So prepare a meat dish with water and fire only.
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- 8/2/2011
- by Jason Hughes
- Aol TV.
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