Interview with Chef John Besh
by petermarcus | September 28, 2008 | In Competitions, Interviews, John Besh, Photography, Reviews, food, tabletop, travel | 8 Comments
Chef John Besh was raised in Southern Louisiana and currently owns four restaurants in New Orleans: La Provence, Lüke, Besh Steak, and his flagship restaurant August, which was named on Gourmet magazine’s list of Best Restaurants two times. He has been a contestant on Iron Chef America, where he won the andouille challenge against Mario Batali, and was a finalist with Michael Symon on The Next Iron Chef competition. Chef Besh was named one of the Top Ten Best New Chefs by Food and Wine magazine in 1999, and won the 2006 James Beard award for Best Chef in the southeast.
Chef John Besh emceeing the Bocuse d’Or USA, Epcot, Walt Disney World. Photo by Christey Krause
I got a chance to speak with Chef Besh after he and Al Roker emceed the Bocuse d’Or USA competition in Epcot, Walt Disney World. The chef for team USA was to be chosen out of eight competitors, the winner will represent the USA at the International Bocuse d’Or competition in Lyon, France, in January 2009.
Foodbuzz was kind enough to send Christey and me to the competition as part of their Foodie Correspondant Program, to write about and photograph the competition. This interview is our first post about the competition. There will also be a post where I speak with Chef Hung Huynh, one of the Bocuse d’Or USA contestents and winner of Bravo’s Top Chef Season 3, and one or two more posts covering the competition itself.
