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Charlie Trotter is a Chicago chef and restaurateur.
How Did Charlie Get Started?
In 1982, Charlie took a position, cooking for minimum wage, and marveled at the fact that someone would pay him for doing what he loves. "I wanted to learn about cooking. Forget the career. If the career happens as a byproduct of learning more about food, so be it."
For several years, he traveled, continuing to study and work, reading cookbooks and eating out whenever possible. He studied with notable chefs Gordon Sinclair in Chicago, Norman Van Aken in Florida, and Bradley Ogden in San Francisco before returning to Chicago to open his first restaurant.
A graduate of New Trier High School, Trotter started cooking professionally in 1982 after earning a degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For the next 5 years, he worked and studied in Chicago, San Francisco at the California Culinary Academy, Florida and Europe.
Charlie Trotter is the host of the 1999 PBS cooking show The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter in which he details his recipes and cooking techniques. He likens cooking to an improvisational jazz session in that as two riffs will never be the same, so too with food. He has also written 13 cookbooks, two management books and has a line of organic and all natural gourmet foods distributed nationally.
Trotter is involved with his philanthropic Charlie Trotter Culinary Education Foundation and other causes. He was awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award in 2005 by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. He invites groups of public high school students into his restaurant as part of his Excellence Program 2 to 3 times per week: they eat a meal and are told how the food was prepared and the motivations of those preparing it.
Charlie Trotter made a cameo appearance in the 1997 film My Best Friend's Wedding, screaming at an assistant "I will kill your whole family if you don't get this right!" a parody of a stereotypical screaming angry chef.
Restaurants
Charlie Trotter's restaurant in Chicago, which opened in 1987, was named as the 30th-best restaurant in the world, and 5th-best in the USA in 2007 by the well-respected "Restaurant Magazine". It has received awards and praise from other publications and travel guides.
Trotter owns Trotter's To Go, a high-end delicatessen and catering store in Lincoln Park, Chicago. In 2006 he opened Trotter's To Go Express, a simplified delicatessen located in Chicago's downtown Equinox Fitness Club selling fast food to carry away.
In February 2004, C, a seafood restaurant, opened in Los Cabos, Mexico under the direction of Charlie Trotter.
Trotter announced in 2006 that he would open a new restaurant, as yet unnamed, in the new Elysian tower near Michigan Avenue in Chicago to open in late 2008.
Trotter is scheduled to open a seafood restaurant at the Palazzo casino in Las Vegas. The hotel is scheduled to open in December 2007. Trotter is also opening a restaurant in New York City in a new building being built at One Madison Park.
Accomplishments
* 8-Time Recipient of the Distinguished James Beard Award
* ‘The Best Restaurant in the World for Wine & Food’ Wine Spectator (1998)
* Honored by President George Bush and Colin Powell as one of the five America’s Promise Heroes
* Founder, Charlie Trotter’s Culinary Education Foundation
* TV Host of the nationally aired, award winning PBS cooking series, The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter, author of 11 cookbooks
* Humanitarian of the Year Award, International Association of Culinary Professionals
Books by Charlie Trotter
* Charlie Trotter's 1994 ISBN 0-89815-628-9
* Charlie Trotter's Vegetables 1996 ISBN 0-89815-838-9
* Charlie Trotter's Seafood 1997 ISBN 0-89815-898-2
* Gourmet Cooking for Dummies 1997 ISBN 0-7645-5029-2
* Charlie Trotter's Desserts 1998 ISBN 0-89815-815-X
* The Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter 1999 ISBN 0-89815-997-0
* Charlie Trotter Cooks at Home 2000 ISBN 1-58008-250-5
* Charlie Trotter's Meat and Game 2001 ISBN 1-58008-238-6
* Workin' More Kitchen Sessions With Charlie Trotter 2004 ISBN 1-58008-613-6
Coauthored by Charlie Trotter
* Clarke, Paul and Charlie Trotter. Lessons in Excellence from Charlie Trotter 1999 ISBN 0-89815-908-3
* Lawler, Edward and Charlie Trotter. Lessons in Service from Charlie Trotter 2001 ISBN 1-58008-315-3
* Trotter, Charlie and Roxanne Klein. Raw 2003 ISBN 1-58008-470-2
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Beyond his numerous culinary accolades, Chef Trotter is very involved in philanthropic activities, which include a vast number of national and international charities. Most close to his heart is the Charlie Trotter Culinary Education Foundation. Since its inception in 1999, Chef Trotter hosts weekly dinners for High School students, as well as underwriting annual fund raising dinners for the foundation. To date the foundation has raised over $475,000 to award to individuals seeking careers in the culinary arts.
Chef Trotter recently received an award at the White House from both President Bush and Colin Powell for his work with the Foundation and was named one of only five 'heroes' to be honored by Colin Powell's charity, America's Promise. In 2004, Chef Trotter was awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award by the International Association of Culinary Professionals for his overall service to the community.
Banned smoking in his restaurant as early as 1989 and was cited as the inspiration for the ban on fois gras in Chicago (April 2006)
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Sauterne Cake with Marinated Strawberries Toledo Blade, OH - Cook’s note: This recipe is Chef Rick Whitehead’s interpretation of a dish inspired by Charlie Trotter. He serves it with basil oil and olive-oil infused ... |
Charlie Trotter to Whip up Magic at Bocuse d’Or USA ‘Culinary ... The Cooking Gal, FL - When the contest concludes and spatulas rest, culinary great Charlie Trotter, along with other star chefs from around the world, will host a Gala Dinner and ... |
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Boulud and Keller: What it Takes for American Chefs to Compete in ... Huffington Post, NY - By early summer they had assembled a roster of competitors that included not just Michael Rotondo from Charlie Trotter's staff, but Timothy Hollingsworth, ... |
The Palazzo raises the stakes on fine Toronto Star, Canada - The Palazzo does very well on those fronts, with world-class chefs like Charlie Trotter, Wolfgang Puck, Emeril Lagasse and Mario Batali guiding some of its ... |
The Bon Appetit Supper Club and Cafe, Midtown Manhattan's 'Pop-Up ... MarketWatch - ... Claudia Fleming, Tyler Florence, Ben Ford, Jonathan Lindenauer, Johnny Iuzzini, Pichet Ong, Francois Payard, Michael Psilakis, Charlie Trotter & more. |
Simple treasures from the oven Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - I'd expect nothing less from someone with so enviable a résumé: Her decade-long stint as pastry chef at Chicago's stratospherically rated Charlie Trotter's ... |
It's a dinner fit for a (guillotine) queen USA Today - Charlie Trotter of Charlie Trotter's in Chicago, TV celeb/international restaurateur Gordon Ramsay and Alain Passard of L'Arpege in Paris are among those in ... |
'Clamwich' introduces us to surf clam. Tell us your food finds Chicago Sun-Times, United States - So for $8.95, diners will get a taste of the surf clam -- which Dugan has supplied to such high-end Chicago restaurants Charlie Trotter's and Spiaggia. ... |
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