Great Taste Magazine 2012 Jan/Feb Issue

Great Taste Magazine 2012 Jan/Feb Issue features Chef Greg Daniels and culinary news, tips, recommendations and recipes from Orange County restaurant chefs.

Take a Journey to Napa Valley in this issue of Great Taste Magazine. Join us as we tour the region to sample the local cuisine and taste the wines of the beautiful countryside. Journey back home to get to know Chef Greg Daniels of Haven Gastropub in Orange. He shares with us what inspires him as a chef, the importance of local, sustainable ingredients and even shares his recipe for the Haven Burger.

Learn what’s new with The Beet, where we highlight what’s going on in the food industry from the new Chef at Tabu Grill to the new Yard House locations across the country. If you are looking for something to satisfy your sweet tooth, check out our Q&A with Casey’s Cupcakes, the winners of The Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. For the meat lovers we offer up some of the best shank dishes from around Orange County as well as Chef Daniels’ recipe for Braised pork shank.

This issue we are also offering up advice on social media tips and tricks to help you not only attract followers but to keep them coming back, as well as how to protect yourself from ICE and the new Government crack downs on I-9s.

We go inside Kitchen Nightmares with Luigi’s D Italia in Anaheim to see how the restaurant is doing now after its stint on the popular Gordon Ramsay show and hear what Chef Luigi Catizone has to say now about Ramsay and being on his show. As always we give you our produce pick of the month and tell you what is happening in the fish market. Finish your journey through our pages with a nightcap of moonshine and other spirits with a few recipes from the back bar of L.A.’s cocktail movement.

Great Taste Magazine 2009 Spring Issue covers the restaurants and the professionals with resources, recipes, beautiful photos and many tasty tidbits. Great Taste Magazine, the premiere connection to all the key decision makers in our local Southern California restaurant industry. Each month our 15 year-old full-color trade publication reaches thousands of the area’s top restaurant owners, general managers, executive chefs and buyers. Take a tour through the magazine. Each issue features a restaurant and local chef, and is packed with the timeliest information, critical operational tips and other industry news important to our readers.

Update! Even in these tough economic times, it’s clear our readers still have Great Taste! We’re happy to announce that our circulation has increased and we’d like to thank each and every one of our readers for helping make Great Taste Magazine the go-to source for Orange County restaurant information.

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Teri Williams has her finger on the pulse of the local hospitality industry like no one else. Fifteen years as editor and publisher of Orange County’s only hospitality trade magazine combined with her consultancy for the non-profit sector and her public relations expertise give Williams a far-reaching, varied and unique perspective of the industry. Besides her esteemed Great Taste publication, she has extensive experience in the travel industry (retail agent and wholesale), event planning and volunteerism. Williams has contacts around the globe in the restaurant, hotel, media and travel trades. She has also been applauded for her enthusiastic charity work and has chaired numerous chef, food and wine events on behalf of local non-profit organizations, for which she has helped garner more than $1 million in donations through the years. Known for her unflagging enthusiasm, entrepreneurial spirit, can do attitude and joie de vivre, Williams is a constant presence and authority on the OC culinary and hospitality scene.

Great Taste would not exist without our enthusiastic and generous contributors, which is why we want to turn the spotlight on them! We’ve got chefs and students, teachers and experts – so read on to meet the wonderful people that write for your pleasure. They all have Great Taste!