Celeb Chef Curtis Stone Gets Ready to Cook for 640 at the SAG Awards
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorCurtis Stone is making his debut at the SAG Awards. No, the Aussie chef, whose Los Angeles eateries include Gwen and the newly reopened Maude, hasn’t jumped into acting — he’s designing the night’s dinner menu.The first course of the evening — the awards take place Feb.
27 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica — will feature a turmeric-roasted cauliflower, mint and quinoa salad, followed by an entrée of salmon rillettes with lemon, capers and dill accompanied by a sweet potato side with curry, coconut, cilantro and cucumber as well as artichokes and mushrooms in a truffle dressing.I caught up with Stone to talk about Logan Roy, cooking for 640 people and sourcing from local farmers. How did working with the SAG Awards come about?We’ve got an events business that we launched about a year before the pandemic hit.
It’s been a bit of a start-stop business, to be honest, but we’re back up and running and doing lots of things. They came to us, and we got them in and did some tastings for them.How do you even start designing a menu like this?
Not only is it for 640 people, but they’re also some of the world’s most famous people. We’re lucky we have a lot of them come through our restaurants, so hopefully we know what they like to eat.
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