Roasted Curry
Tomato Pie, p. 100
Asha Gomez
Chef-owner, The Third Space,
Atlanta
Maneet Chauhan
Chef-owner, Chauhan Ale &
Masala House, Chaatable, Tansuo,
and The Mockingbird, Nashville
Meherwan Irani
Chef-owner, Buxton Hall Barbecue, MG
Road Bar & Lounge, and Chai Pani,
and Chai Pani, Decatur, Georgia. Founder,
Vishwesh Bhatt
Chef-owner, Snackbar,
Oxford, Mississippi
Cheetie Kumar
Chef-owner, Garland, Kings, and
Neptunes Parlour, Raleigh, North Carolina
Samantha Fore
Chef-owner, Tuk Tuk Sri
Lankan Bites, Lexington, Kentucky
“I have Sri Lankan parents
and grew up in North
Carolina eating Sri Lankan
food, but as a kid, I craved
Southern food. Now, I crave
the food I grew up eating, but
I still want that Southern
accent on it.”
Farhan Momin
Owner, Farmo Cooks, Atlanta
With a combined 13 James Beard
nods among them, the chefs of
Brown in the South serve up
serious star power from Nashville
to Asheville, where the fourth
Brown in the South dinner is set to
take place on September 13. Some
of the chefs, like Irani, have a
restaurant empire; others, like Fore
and Momin, are growing newer
concepts. Sign up for the group’s
newsletter and buy tickets at
browninthesouth.splashthat.com.
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