Blackberry Farm's executive chef, Joseph Lenn, is on the list of contenders for "The People's Best New Chef 2011" award from Food & Wine magazine. And you can help vault him over the top--the winner will be determined by online voting, which started yesterday.
Go to CNN's Eatocracy blog before March 1 and cast your vote!
Here's the full press release:
CHEF JOSEPH LENN IS A NOMINEE FOR THE PEOPLE'S BEST NEW CHEF 2011
Joseph Lenn, Executive Chef of Blackberry Farm, has been nominated for FOOD & WINE's brand-new The People's Best New Chef 2011 award. He is among 100 innovative chefs from across the country to be nominated. Voting will be online at http://eatocracy.cnn.com/foodandwine from February 15th to March 1st.
The Best New Chef award recognizes the country's most promising up-and-coming talents -- innovative chefs with a distinctive vision creating exceptionally delicious food. FOOD & WINE has awarded chefs such as Thomas Keller ('88), Nobu Matsuhisa ('89), Tom Colicchio ('91), David Chang ('06) and Roy Choi ('10). This year they have created a new addition, The People's Best New Chef 2011, which extends the judging to you, the public. Voting is divided into 10 regions and you may only vote once per region.
Chef Joseph Lenn is nominated for the Southeast region. He has lead his culinary team in providing the Foothills Cuisine for which Blackberry has come to be known. Chef Lenn's team prepares beautifully served multi-course menus in The Barn dining room, inspired by seasonal, farm-fresh products and produce, grown just a few feet away in the gardens.
Inspired by his mother and grandmother from a young age, Lenn sought a career in the culinary world. His training started in the butcher shop at a local independent grocery store of his Tennessee hometown. Quality ingredients were of the utmost importance there, and Chef Lenn learned that the best food comes from the best product. This thought led Lenn to culinary school at Johnson and Wales in Charleston, South Carolina where he was able to hone his skills in the kitchen.
Lenn joined the Blackberry Farm team in 2005 as Sous Chef, and in 2007 reopened the Main House Restaurant as Chef de Cuisine.
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