CELEBRITY CHEF
World-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson will give a cooking demonstration and discussion of heart-healthy, affordable cooking and dining practices.
World-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson is the guest of honor of Saints Heart & Vascular Institute’s annual Celebrity Chef series this year.
Samuelsson will take the stage at the Chevy Bricktown Event Center, 429 E California Ave., for a cooking demonstration and discussion of hearthealthy, affordable cooking and dining practices at 7 p.m. Feb. 15.
Samuelsson is an award-winning chef and author of five successful cookbooks. He was born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, but came to culinary prominence as executive chef of Aquavit, a Nordic restaurant in New York City.
Samuelsson soon became a fixture on television, winning Bravo’s “Top Chef Masters” in 2010, and currently as a judge on Food Network’s “Chopped.” He also has hosted BET’s “Urban Cuisine” and Discovery’s “Inner Chef.”
In 2009, Samuelsson acted as guest chef at the White House for President Barack Obama, preparing his first State Dinner.
Samuelsson also is coowner and executive chef at Red Rooster Harlem in New York City.
Samuelsson is the 17th guest chef in the series, following Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Rachael Ray, Sandra Lee, Giada De Laurentiis, Dave Lieberman, Curtis Stone, Ingrid Hoffmann, Matthew Kenney, Cat Cora, Robert Irvine, Rick Bayless, Anne Burrell, Rocco DiSpirito, and Oklahoma’s own Kurt Fleischfresser and Kamala Gamble.
Cost for the tasting event is $20. Doors open between 6 and 6:15. For more information, call 272-7383.
Find tickets at eventbrite.com, keyword: saints heart vascular.
No truth to the rumor
A few weeks ago, I received an email from a reader wondering if the rumors she’d been hearing about Johnnie’s Charcoal
Broiler closing its Britton Road location were true.
I hadn’t heard anything like that, so I reached out to co-owner Rick Haynes, who responded with an unequivocal “no.”
Apparently, that single email didn’t tamp down the rumor mill.
I got another email last week, this time from the aforementioned Mr. Haynes.
“Dave, still hearing about these Britton Road rumors,” he wrote. “Is there any chance of putting something in the paper to quiet these?”
Consider this my unequivocal “yes.”
According to the owner of Johnnie’s Charcoal Broiler, which was established in 1971 by Johnnie Haynes, the 40-year-old location at 2652 W Britton Road is NOT closing for the foreseeable future.
Rick Bayless will NOT have to find a new place to meet with family the day after Thanksgiving any time soon.
In fact, Rick Haynes points out, Johnnie’s will introduce two new locations in 2018, one in Moore and one in Midwest City. Look for those openings by summer’s end.