Legendary chef Norman Van Aken is known internationally as “the founding father of New World Cuisine”; a celebration of Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American flavors. He also is the person who brought the term “Fusion Cooking” to the planet in a speech he delivered in Santa Fe in 1988.
He is the only Floridian inducted into the prestigious “James Beard list of ‘Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America”. He is the winner of the James Beard Award, ‘Best Chef in the Southeast’. The New York Times deemed “Norman’s”, “the Best Restaurant in Florida and Norman Van Aken its best Chef”. The Beard Foundation nominated “Norman’s” as “The Best Restaurant in America. He has been hailed as a “culinary genius” by Johnson and Wales University and given an honorary doctorate.
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