Word: palladin
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...thought of slinging sandwiches and bagels in Hong Kong seems strange, consider the chef doing the slinging. Adam Levin, who co-owns the shop with his wife, Tammy, is hardly your average diner drone. Instead, he's a five-star chef who counts Wolfgang Puck and Jean-Louis Palladin among his mentors and boasts a résumé that includes stints at Spago in Las Vegas and Aria in Beijing. After arriving in Hong Kong in 2001 to head the Great Eagle Hotel's Bostonian, he began having entrepreneurial aspirations when Tammy developed a craving for tacos-hardly...
DIED. JEAN-LOUIS PALLADIN, 55, venturesome chef who took the fustiness out of French food and opened the fashionable Jean-Louis restaurant in Washington's Watergate Hotel; of lung cancer; in McLean, Va. Palladin mentored a generation of celebrated New York City chefs, such as Daniel Boulud, Christian Delouvrier and Drew Nieporent, but never struck it rich. When his cancer was diagnosed last year, chefs and diners across the country chipped in to offset his medical bills...