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15 Minutes with Shaker & Spear Executive Chef Carolynn Spence

15 Minutes with Shaker & Spear Executive Chef Carolynn Spence

Shaker & Spear executive chef talks pet peeves and her "Spence-centric" cuisine

After a decade at Los Angeles’ famed Chateau Marmont hotel, Carolynn Spence packed up her three pixie-bob cats (a Washington breed) to lead the kitchen of the Palladian Hotel’s Shaker & Spear downtown, a position recently vacated by Tulio’s Walter Pisano. Here’s what makes her tick. » Los Angeles to Seattle. Why? The geography, the…

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