Hear from Flour and Myers+Chang pastry chef/co-owner Joanne Chang and Brato Brewhouse and Kitchen chef/co-owner Jonathan Gilman as they discuss the latest innovations in the restaurant industry. GBH Curiosity Desk’s Edgar B. Herwick III hosts and digs deeper into how these chefs are overcoming challenges and creating exciting new options for food and drink.
Joanne Chang, an honors graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics, left a career as a management consultant to enter the world of professional cooking. She started as garde-manger cook at Boston's renowned Biba restaurant, worked for a year assisting the owner/head-baker of Bentonwood Bakery in Newton, and in 1995 was hired as Pastry Chef at Rialto restaurant in Cambridge.
Jonathan got his start in the beer industry at the Cambridge Brewing Company after traveling the word to learn all he could about sustainable cooking. In the fall of 2019, he opened Brato which serves its own beer and food and is always innovating.