Kaysen, a two-time James Beard award-winning chef from Minnesota, is stopping in San Diego Nov. 10 as part of a national tour for his new cookbook
restaurant chef-owner Travis Swikard has been grateful for the mentorship and friendship of famed chef and former San Diegan Gavin Kaysen. Now he’s able to say thank you in a culinary way, by hosting a dinner for Kaysen during his book tour visit here next month.
Kaysen said he hasn’t cooked with Swikard for nearly a decade so he’s excited to reconnect with his close friend.Kaysen was just 24 years old when he became a national sensation at the former El Bizcocho restaurant at the Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego. In 2007, he was named one of Food & Wine magazine’s top 10 “Best New Chefs,” he competed for the U.S.
“From giving a 21-year-old punk a chance to stage at El Bizcocho, to sending me off to England to work for his good friend Phil Thompson, and ultimately bringing me to New York City to start my 10-year voyage of cooking with ‘papa DB,’ Gavin has helped me lay the framework for my entire career,” Swikard said. “He even inspired me by moving home to be closer to family and proving that an NYC chef could be successful and fulfilled in his hometown.
San Diego is the last stop on Kaysen’s book tour, which kicks off Nov. 1 in New York. In several cities, he’ll sign copies of his cookbook at Williams Sonoma stores, and in some, he’ll be cooking with close chef friends like Swikard, as well as with Boulud on Nov. 2 in New York and Aaron Bludorn, a fellow Boulud alumnus, on Nov. 8 in Houston.Kaysen said he enjoys any opportunity to return to San Diego for collaboration dinners, because “San Diego is where it all started for me.
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