Chef ken oringer biography
Chef ken oringer biography
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Ken Oringer
American chef
Ken Oringer (born 1965 in Paramus, New Jersey) is a Boston-based chef[1] who is a business partner of Jamie Bissonnette.[2]
Education
Oringer studied restaurant management at Bryant College in Rhode Island (class of 1987)[3] followed by a degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.[4] His classmates voted him Most Likely to Succeed [5]
Career
His first job after graduation was at River Café in New York, followed by a pastry chef position at Al Forno in Providence, Rhode Island and as sous chef under Jean-Georges Vongerichten at the Marquis de Lafayette in Boston.
Next, he briefly operated Terra Ristorante Italiano, founded by restaurateur Paul Ardaji in Greenwich, Connecticut, which won three stars from The NY Times.[6]
In 1992, Oringer moved to San Francisco and became chef de cuisine at Silks in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
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