May 24, 2013

Flavor Café: Palladio

Photo by Laura Merricks

  Does chef Melissa Close-Hart pinch herself when she arrives at work—a restaurant surrounded by vineyards, with a kitchen garden tended by a horticulturalist and ingredients raised by local farmers who plant to her specifications? By Dyan Carlson • Photographs by Laura Merricks     Melissa Close-Hart is living a professional chef’s dream. For 10 [...]

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