Ken's Memorial Dinner

[robert brown]

Fergus, is the Ken Brozen Annual Memorial Dinner still taking place? To get really serious, he told me before he left us in 1989 that Alain Chapel was a hero of yours, if not your favorite chef. Would you tell us why and if he instilled any inspiration that influences you? (As to who is Ken Brozen, he was a design gadabout and a friend of mine and Fergus' parents.)

[fergus]

Ken Brozen's memorial dinner sadly seems to have gone the same way as Ken.

But it's almost impossible to have a giddy gastronomic moment without Ken coming to mind and how much he would also be enjoying it.

As to Alain Chapel, indeed a splendid chef and along with many others over the last 14 years certainly an influence.