Sasha Petraske, who helped restore lost luster to the venerable cocktail as the founder of the New York cocktail bar Milk & Honey and other polished drinking spots around the world, was found dead on Friday morning at his home in Hudson, N.Y. He was 42.

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Mr. Petraske’s role in the modern cocktail revival is difficult to overstate. The opening of Milk & Honey in 1999, in a narrow space on a dark, little populated block of the Lower East Side, has been called instrumental in the revival of cocktail culture across United States and beyond.

Roy Gurvey, who helped build Dad's Root Beer into global brand, dies at 92

Robert Schuffler, original owner of Robert's Fish Market on Devon, dies at 97

watson wrote:I wasn't quite sure where to put this; I'm sad to report that LTH'er Kenji passed away two days ago.

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watson wrote:I wasn't quite sure where to put this; I'm sad to report that LTH'er Kenji passed away two days ago.

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignit ... id=6592710

jimswside wrote:

watson wrote:I wasn't quite sure where to put this; I'm sad to report that LTH'er Kenji passed away two days ago.

http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignit ... id=6592710

That sucks.

RIP.

Fred DeLuca, who in 1965, at 17, borrowed $1,000 to open a sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Conn., to help pay college expenses and parlayed that experience into building Subway, the world’s largest chain of fast-food franchises, died on Monday night. He was 67.

Daniel Thompson, who five decades ago automated the arcane art of bagel making, a development — seen variously as saving grace and sacrilege — that has sent billions of mass-produced bagels raining down on the American heartland, died on Sept. 3 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 94.

As vaunted as it was in American cities, the traditional bagel for years remained so obscure — so ethnic — that as late as 1960 The New York Times Magazine felt obliged to define it for a national readership as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”

Bagel-making was still a skilled trade then, restricted to members of the International Beigel Bakers Union, as the name was Romanized after the organization was founded in New York in 1907. (Until well into the 1950s, the minutes of the union’s board meetings were taken down in Yiddish.)

Internationally known chef Paul Prudhomme dies at age 75, TV station reports

Joni Ishida, ran Japanese restaurant in Chicago, dies at 84

Chris Tomaras, gyros king of Chicago, dies

Heleen Thanasouras-Gillman, ran famous Chicago breakfast restaurant, dies at 63

Dave148 wrote:

Heleen Thanasouras-Gillman, ran famous Chicago breakfast restaurant, dies at 63

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-h ... story.html

Dave148 wrote:

Heleen Thanasouras-Gillman, ran famous Chicago breakfast restaurant, dies at 63

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-h ... story.html

Co-owner of Lou Mitchell's Restaurant on West Jackson Boulevard, Heleen Thanasouras-Gillman was well-known to the many customers she greeted with warmth and wit.

In 1953, Mr. Williams went to Europe, spending two weeks in Paris restaurants and kitchen supply shops. He was fascinated by the food and equipment, which was available to any French cook. There were heavy sauté pans, huge stockpots, fish poachers, bakeware, bains-marie, superior knives in many sizes and an array of cutting, dicing and grating tools. And there were pantry items: balsamic vinegar, olive oils, sea salt, exotic peppercorns, Madagascar vanilla and Italian pastas, all but unknown in American kitchens.

Back in Sonoma, he bought an old hardware store, remodeled it and stocked it with items he had seen in Paris, most of them unavailable outside restaurant supply stores in this country. He paid close attention to displays and effusively answered customers’ questions. Many San Franciscans had vacation homes in sleepy Sonoma, and business was good. He grossed $35,000 the first year.

A Southern cooking pioneer has died in her native Tennessee. Phila Rawlings Hach hosted the first television cooking show in the South, evangelizing the virtues of Southern cuisine. She went on to become a cookbook author, restaurateur, innkeeper and catering chef to politicians and military flights.

CHATHAM — Chicago has lost a barbecue legend.

James B. Lemons, the owner of Lem’s Bar-B-Q House at 311 E. 75th St. died Sunday morning at 87.

According to a Facebook post from his friend George Davis, brothers Bruce and Miles Lemons opened the very first Lem's on 59th Street in 1951. It was the first place in town to serve rib tips.