In the Age of the Larger-Than-Life Celebrity Chef, Susur Lee Has Maintained a Master’S Focus on His Craft

In the Age of the Larger-Than-Life Celebrity Chef, Susur Lee Has Maintained a Master’S Focus on His Craft

CULINAIT story by JENNIfEr CoCKraLL-KINg photos by JaSoN NESS In the age of the larger-than-life celebrity chef, Susur Lee has maintained a master’s focus on his craft. During his week as the Hokanson Chef in Residence, the father of Asian fusion imparted his worldly brand of kitchen wisdom with the style and commitment of an artist indifferent to the trappings of fame. PROFILE OF A MASTER ’m still learning,” Susur Lee declares at the start of Lee, who is known around the world merely by fi rst “ his two-hour talk and cooking demonstration to 50 name – Susur, meaning “fi ne sand” in Chinese – has I eager Culinary Arts students hanging on his every come to Edmonton for fi ve intensely packed days in word as he assembles Singaporean slaw salad with salted March as NAIT’s Hokanson Chef in Residence. He’s apricot dressing. Lee is a tall, lean 52-year-old who looks arguably Canada’s best-known chef with fi ve restaurants 32 thanks to good genetics, yoga, seriously stylish jeans to his name, and legions of fans thanks to a recent turn and running shoes, and his iconic black ponytail. on Top Chef Masters, where he competed against 21 other famous chefs only to lose the fi nal competition to Marcus Samuelsson by a fraction of a point. But in the NAIT kitchens, there’s no sign of the ego that usually accompanies a chef of his stature. Instead, he seems more concerned with encouraging students to squeeze every last bit of information out of him while they have his undivided attention. 50 techlifemag.ca PROFILE OF A MASTER v4.2 2011 51.

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