Celebrating Indiana’s culinary community
Graduating in 2016 from the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Indianapolis with a bachelor's in culinary management, Chef Haley Garrity began a line cook job at the then recently opened East End Grill in her hometown of Lafayette, Ind. Now chef de...
It’s time for the Culinary Crossroads Spring Dinner Series, four weeks of collaborative chef dinners that run April 8-29 at Highland Golf & Country Club, and once again sommelier Ashlee Nemeth of Tinker Street restaurant in Indianapolis will be choosing the wine...
One of the most prominent executive chefs in Southern Indiana, Rozalind "Roza" Segoviano owns six restaurants with her Mexican-born husband, Juan. Together, they oversee a growing regional restaurant empire, Viva Hospitality Group, that includes Sleepy Rooster Kitchen...
Tommy Reddicks, CEO of Paramount Schools of Excellence, launched an innovative middle school cooking program in Indianapolis last year, and a team of his Jr. Chef Academy students won first place at the World Food Championships in Dallas in November. But that’s not...
Representing the newest generation of Indy barbecue pitmasters, Evansville native Mike McFarland is earning acclaim for his barbecuing and smoked meat skills. After graduating from Pennsylvania Culinary School, he and his wife, CJ, opened their first Smokin’ Barrel...
His Place Eatery, the popular soul food restaurant on Indy's Eastside, started as a catering business with chef James "Mackie" Jones and his mother, Jackie. During that time, he also worked for an area broadcaster in corporate sales but felt a change in his career...
Indiana native Thomas Melvin, executive chef at Vida in Indianapolis since 2017, just received his second nod from the James Beard Foundation for Best Chef: Great Lakes. The restaurant, located in Indy’s historic Lockerbie Square neighborhood, has received AAA’s Four...
Salamat Cookies founder Michael Williams II started baking sweets to pay his rent when his photography career came to a pandemic standstill. He enlisted his Filipina mother, Odie, and the two began an Indianapolis-based bakery using traditional ingredients from the...
One sip was all it took. Winemaker Kevin Geeting's career trajectory diverged after receiving a mathematical science degree from Trine University in Angola, Ind. At a convention, Geeting gave in to a colleague's insistence on tasting a 1998 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet...
When psychologist Treva Bostic opened Cultured Urban Winery in her hometown of Anderson, Ind., as the first Black-owned farmhouse winery in the Hoosier state, she fulfilled a lifelong ambition. An avid traveler and oenophile, Bostic, who is the director of race,...
Chef Logan Hostettler grew up in Nashville, Tenn., but was born in Clark County, Indiana, in the small town of New Washington, and until he was 6 lived across the street from the church that he and his family would one day renovate as 1894 Lodge & Catering Hall....
Chef Samir Mohammad, a native of Taos, N.M., who studied at Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco and the well-regarded Culinary Institute of Arts in Napa, Calif., opened 9th Street Bistro in Noblesville, Ind., with his Hoosier wife, Rachel, at the height of the pandemic....
In 2012, Carrie Abbott, then a caterer, tried to create a homemade Butterfinger candy bar for a wedding client, but what emerged became her signature creation – Frittle. This delightful concoction, a nostalgic fusion of peanut brittle and fudge, would become the...
By Brian Garrido It was the gift of a wine refrigerator that led vintner Nicole Kearney to host her first home wine tasting and marked the beginning of her journey as a wine professional. Eventually, she created a tasting business featuring wines from around the...
By Brian Garrido Indianapolis chef Carlos Salazar’s culinary journey began in his family’s kitchen, and eventually led him to culinary school. He studied with longtime Indy chef Tony Hanslits at The Chef’s Academy and then worked for chef Steven Oakley of Oakleys...
