55 min

#14 WTCC - Chef Gavin Kaysen While The Cookies Cool

    • Food

Chef Gavin Kaysen is the chef/owner of Spoon and Stable & Demi in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He represented the USA in 2007's Bocuse d'Or as a competitor, before becoming Team USA's head coach and leading the team to second place (the first medal and podium placement ever for the United States) in 2015 and a historic first place medal in 2017's Bocuse d'Or competitions. In addition to an incredible professional resume, Chef Kaysen is a James beard award winner, one of the founding mentors of the nonprofit ment'or BKB Foundation, and the chef/owner of Soigne Hospitality Group. He started the Heart of the House Foundation at the very beginning of the COVID pandemic along with other members of his team to provide support for furloughed employees, and has launched a highly successful virtual cooking class series, GK at Home.

He is such a gracious, driven, and inspiring Chef and it was a true privilege to sit and speak with him.


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Chef Gavin Kaysen is the chef/owner of Spoon and Stable & Demi in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He represented the USA in 2007's Bocuse d'Or as a competitor, before becoming Team USA's head coach and leading the team to second place (the first medal and podium placement ever for the United States) in 2015 and a historic first place medal in 2017's Bocuse d'Or competitions. In addition to an incredible professional resume, Chef Kaysen is a James beard award winner, one of the founding mentors of the nonprofit ment'or BKB Foundation, and the chef/owner of Soigne Hospitality Group. He started the Heart of the House Foundation at the very beginning of the COVID pandemic along with other members of his team to provide support for furloughed employees, and has launched a highly successful virtual cooking class series, GK at Home.

He is such a gracious, driven, and inspiring Chef and it was a true privilege to sit and speak with him.


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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/while-the-cookies-cool/support

55 min