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Chefs of Odin Brewing, Chicory Restaurant in TV competitions

Courtney M. Wolf

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Kristen Lyon, executive chef and general manager of Odin Brewing in Tacoma competes on “FireMasters,” an open-flame competition on the Cooking Channel and Food Network Canada.


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Representing Tacoma and Olympia, two chefs — both women — compete on two new cooking shows, one now streaming and the other available June 1.

Kristen Lyon, the executive chef of Odin Brewing in Tacoma, appears in Season 4, Episode 2 of “FireMasters,” a grilling competition on the Cooking Channel and Food Network Canada.

On Discovery+, Elise Landry, co-owner of the barely year-old Chicory in Olympia, jumped into the first

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Martha Stewart and other TV chefs share their best-ever cooking tips

Courtney M. Wolf
Martha Stewart and other TV chefs share their best-ever cooking tips


Top tips from television royalty


There’s a reason we love watching cooking shows. They provide us with insider knowledge and top recipe inspiration, especially useful now we have more time to spend in the kitchen. It was a hard job selecting the best but here are our favorite TV chefs’ cooking tips, from Martha Stewart to Guy Fieri.



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The special recipes from Mum that inspired top chefs to follow their dreams

Courtney M. Wolf

“I grew up in the south of Ukraine, in a small town about an hour from Crimea. Mum’s cooking was really varied – day-to-day it was traditional Ukranian food, but when we got our first cookbook in the ’90s, translated from a Canadian chef, she started expanding her repertoire with coq au vin and other things.

“I never took much interest in food as a child or a teenager. It was when I was an adult that I realised what an amazing source of skill and knowledge my whole family is, but especially my mum. She knew so many

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Young Singapore chefs serve up hope for street food’s future

Courtney M. Wolf


a group of people eating food at a restaurant: Singapore is full of open-air food courts offering a wide variety of cuisines influenced by the nation's ethnic Chinese, Indian and Muslim populations

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Singapore is full of open-air food courts offering a wide variety of cuisines influenced by the nation’s ethnic Chinese, Indian and Muslim populations

After the pandemic torpedoed his chance to work at a Michelin-starred New York restaurant, Lim Wei Keat returned to his roots by becoming a Singapore street-food chef cooking local fare. 

The 25-year-old is among a growing number of young street-food vendors — known as “hawkers” locally — fuelling hopes that a new generation will preserve the city-state’s culinary traditions.

Singapore is full of open-air food courts offering a wide variety of cuisines influenced by

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