CHF Chicago Humanities Festival

Panel

  • E-Mail
    (e.g. amandasmith@gmail.com)

    (Please separate multiple email addresses with commas.)

    (You may use or edit the message above.)

  • PRINT

  • Share

  • TEXT SIZE
tastemakers

Paul Kahan, Mindy Segal & Alpana Singh: The Perfect Meal A Journey with Chicago Tastemakers

 Launch Media

ABOUT 

  • ABOUT Paul Kahan

    Paul Kahan is the executive chef and partner of Blackbird, avec, and The Publican. In 1999, shortly after Blackbird opened, Food & Wine placed Kahan on their Best New Chefs list, recognizing his highly individual approach to cooking and the talent that Chicago diners have celebrated for years. Since then, he has been honored as winner of the James Beard Best Chef of the Midwest in 2004 and selection as a James Beard nominee for Outstanding Chef in 2007.

    Profile

  • ABOUT Mindy Segal

    Mindy Segal is the owner of Hot Chocolate, a popular restaurant in Chicago. She trained as a pastry chef at Chicago’s Kendall College and has worked with award winning chefs at Spago, Gordon, and Charlie Trotter’s. Segal's awards include the Jean Banchet award for Best Celebrity pastry chef in Chicago, Chicago Magazine’s pastry chef of the year and the James Beard Foundation 2007 nomination for outstanding pastry chef in the country.

    Profile

  • ABOUT Alpana Singh

    Alpana Singh is director of Wine and Spirits for Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc. She is also the host of the popular restaurant review television show, Check, Please! which airs weekly on WTTW Channel 11. Her past accolades include Best Sommelier in America by Wine and Spirits Magazine, Crain’s 40 under 40, Food and Wine Magazines 35 Under 35, Best Sommelier Chicago Magazine 2004, and a 2002 James Beard Foundation Nomination for Wine Service.

    Profile
Click next to learn more...

1 of 1

Get more CHF talks for your mobile device.

Sustenance, survival, pleasure—eating is a marvelously complex and necessary endeavor. Our tastes are both a biological imperative and an art. With these needs and desires in mind, we ask, what are the ingredients for the perfect meal? From the wine to entrée to dessert, three Chicago tastemakers will talk us through a palate-pleasing journey. Join Paul Kahan, the executive chef behind Blackbird, avec, Publican, and Big Star; Mindy Segal, owner and pastry chef at Wicker Park’s HotChocolate; and Alpana Singh, sommelier and host of WTTW’s Check, Please, for a mouthwatering excursion and quintessentially Chicago experience.

This program is generously underwritten by the Sara Lee Foundation.

Sara Lee

Read the CHF Guest blog reaction to this program.

Learn More

Similar Programs

Panel

Reformulating Food

A panel discusses how policy and environmental change has led to bans on trans-fats, the development of alternatives for high-fructose corn syrup, and the National Salt Reduction Initiative, and how such change relies on an unprecedented collaboration between public health officials and the food industry.

Panel

Martin Manalansan and Mary Weismantel: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner An Anthropologist's View

Noted food anthropologists Martin Manalansan and Mary Weismantel present key insights developed in this fast-emerging field. Going far beyond an exploration of the different foodstuffs consumed around the globe, they examine how food gives meaning to our lives.

Support CHF - Donate Now

Festival Sponsors

© Copyright 2012 Chicago Humanities Festival