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He ate a meal that, some 30 years later, he still described as "stunning, spectacular, and unbelievable."The restaurant was called Rakel; the name of the chef was.
Courtesy of The French Laundry.At the time of his lunch at Rakel, Duffy had been charged by his editor-in-chief, Ila Stanger, to develop an award for chefs."Wolfgang Puck had become a celebrity; suddenly it was all first names: Marcella, and Julia, and Craig," remembers Duffy.
"Chefs were stepping from the backstage of the kitchen to center stage."As a national magazine, F&W had the architecture in place to reliably vet emerging culinary talent.
And so, later that year, the magazine launched America's Best New Chefs, an award that eventually became simply Best New Chefs.
Young chef Keller was in the first class of honorees.. "Anytime anyone gives you any kind of recognition, you have a responsibility to yourself, your team, and those who wrote about you," Keller says today.dried ají panca chile.
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