Chef Chat

UPPING THE IQ

by Haider K

07/07/2025

Big news for our old friends at IQBAR! While they have long offered the best clean ingredient-based brain-boosting products around, IQBAR recently inked a partnership deal with none other than culinary genius Thomas Keller! In addition to being the first and only American-born chef to hold multiple three-star ratings from the… Read more

UPPING THE IQ

COOKING IS CARING

by Haider K

08/29/2024

As I also teach at the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office. I have a special place in my heart for individuals who face challenges in their lives and figure out ways to overcome them and for organizations that help them do it. That is why I was so gratified to be… Read more

COOKING IS CARING

MAZAL TOV, STEVE!

by Haider K

06/09/2024

I know that there are few people we talk about more than Steve Peljovich of Michael’s Deli in Brookline. However, as this meat-minded mensch just ran through another Relay for Life to raise funds for the American Cancer Society and is also celebrating his 13th year as the King of Corned… Read more

MAZAL TOV, STEVE!

Chef Chat© – Jeff Fritz

by Haider K

05/06/2021

CHEF CHAT Jeff Fritz SilverWolf Private Assistance, LLC www.facebook.com/silverwolfpriasst/?ref=py_c While serving as an active member of the Air Force, Jeff Fritz has learned how to slice through the air with the utmost precision. As a chef and the owner of SilverWolf Private Assistance LLC, he slices fresh foods and amazing… Read more

Chef Chat© – Jeff Fritz

Chef Chat© – Laura Theodore (a.k.a., “The Jazzy Vegetarian”)

by Haider K

04/14/2021

Laura Theodore The Jazzy Vegetarian (www.jazzyvegetarian.com) With a mission of making the world a better place, one recipe at a time, multi-talented, multi-media star Laura Theodore has topped the charts in music, books, and TV and is also considered tops by many vegetarian and general chefs. Having started her career as… Read more

Chef Chat© – Laura Theodore (a.k.a., “The Jazzy Vegetarian”)

Chef Chat© – Jose Duarte

by Haider K

04/01/2021

Jose Duarte Tambo 22 www.Tambo22Chelsea.com Born with a passion for food that he believes is “programmed in his genes,” Peruvian-born chef and owner Jose Duarte moved to Venezuela with his family as a child, but returned to Peru many times in order to maintain and strengthen ties with his family… Read more

Chef Chat©  – Jose Duarte

Chef Chat© – Daniel Bruce

by Haider K

04/01/2021

Daniel Bruce Executive Chef, Boston Harbor Hotel (www.bhh.com) Founder, Boston Wine Festival (www.bostonwinefestival.net) For over 30 years, Chef Daniel Bruce has been pulling more than his weight in maintaining and improving the Boston’s only Forbes Five-Star & AAA Five Diamond waterfront hotel- The Boston Harbor Hotel at Rowes Wharf. Among… Read more

Chef Chat© – Daniel Bruce

Chef Chat© – Steve Peljovich

by Haider K

01/19/2021

Steve Peljovich Michael's Deli www.MichaelsDeliBrookline.com Growing up in a Cuban-Jewish family in Miami, Steve Peljovich had a lot of flavor to bring to Boston. Having been introduced to the Hub of the Universe by way of the legendary (and lately late) Durgin Park, Peljovich liked the family way of the… Read more

Chef Chat© – Steve Peljovich

Cheers to the Independents!

by Haider K

12/24/2019

Since I last recorded for WBZ, I have been promoting my new book on the Ivy League called Lions, Tigers, and…Bulldogs?(which is available at lionstigersbulldogs.com, by they way). I have hosted events around Boston, and in Harvard Square and am looking forward to bringing the book and the story of how… Read more

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