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Seth Krasnove is executive chef at B.B. King's Blues Club and Itta Bena restaurant.
Title: Executive chef, B.B. King's Blues Club and Itta Bena restaurant.
Age: 31
Hometown: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Who or what was your first cooking influence? For everybody it would have to be your mother ... but one of my best friend's, his aunt ... was a stay-at-home homemaker, Italian lady. She made rolls and fresh Italian cookies every day. ... Everything she made was from scratch. I loved going over there and just hanging out.
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Seth Krasnove is executive chef at B.B. King's Blues Club and Itta Bena restaurant.
What was the first thing you ever cooked or baked? Mac and cheese just out of the box. ... I went to put it in the strainer and accidentally ran cold water under it. . . .How would I heat it up? I mixed everything back up in a glass bowl and put it on the stove. Right about the time my mom walked in, the glass bowl blew up all over the kitchen.
What made you decide to become a chef, and when was that? In high school. ... I really liked cooking. I adapted well to it. I was in vocational school, going through the culinary arts program there.
What was your first food-related job? Pretty much the only two things you can do at 14 is be a bag boy in a grocery store or you can work at McDonald's. I was a bag boy for six months, and then I went to work at McDonald's.
What was something important that a fellow chef taught you? Quality and consistency and ... keeping your stuff in place, making sure you have everything.
What is the Seth Krasnove style? I'm a relaxed, comfort-food kind of person.
Describe a dish you created. Something I put a twist on, I took a rack of lamb and I made a roulade. I un-flapped the whole eye and stuffed it with spinach and goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes and roasted garlic and rolled the whole thing back up and ... tied (it).
What do you cook or bake at home, if anything? In the summertime I grill all the time. There's a pool there, and I have a couple of friends that live there. We all just bring our grills down to the pool and sit there all day. ... It brings people around. It just creates a party on its own.
What's your least favorite ingredient? I don't like working with octopus 'cause cleaning it is horrible.
B. B. King's Blues Club and Itta Bena restaurant are at 145 Beale; 524-5464 for B. B. King's and 578-3031 for Itta Bena.
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