Chef Jean Denham, C.C.

This is a dish which can be considered a soup course, a pasta course, or a salad course - the sautéed mushrooms and lettuce provide an earthiness and the delicate crunchiness of the crispy noodles, swimming in a full-flavored but light cumin-infused celery root broth, is a combination that is utterly haunting.

Chef Jean Denham started her culinary career at the age of 60 when she realized that cooking has always been her passion and that she needed to do something about it. Chef Jean Denham is now the Apprenticeship Chair for the Capitol City Chef’s Association, a chapter of the American Culinary Federation which led to her current job as Sous Chef at the Forest House Lodge in Foresthill, California.

Chef Denham "conferencing"
with Chef Rory O'Donnell.