Napa Valley Grille chef Joseph Gillard's home kitchen
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The pots and pans are what set Joseph Gillard and his fiancée apart in their small, sunny kitchen. “Mine are all beat to heck,” says Gillard, chef at the Napa Valley Grille in Westwood Village.
“The clean ones are mine,” says Ziba Shahriary, a highly organized mechanical engineer. (They've got one of the neatest kitchen junk drawers going.)
The evidence backs them up. In Gillard's case, even a pan that's engraved on the bottom to mark his time as executive chef at Nick & Stef's downtown has been used. A lot. Then there's his 50-year-old, 12-inch Griswold cast-iron frying pan — a family heirloom.
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Last summer, Gillard, 44, moved into his fiancée's pristine home, the second floor of a duplex south of Montana Avenue in Santa Monica. The narrow kitchen reflects two strong personalities on its blank slate of tile counter, floors and walls, all in shades of creamy gray, beige and light brown.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Cooks & Cocinas: Troy and Pamela Toman
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On their third kitchen remodel, a wife handed her husband the reins. He went straight for a range that became a focal point of the space.
Who's cooking: Troy Toman, a software development manager at Rackspace, and wife Pamela, executive director of SA Reads, a start-up nonprofit community literacy initiative for Bexar County.
What's cooking: Pam handles most of the weeknight meals for the couple and their 8-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son, often gathering ingredients for the dishes being sampled as she makes a late-afternoon dash through Central Market. “They save the day for me all the time,” she says of the store's suggestions.
Troy takes to the kitchen on weekends, cooking for family gatherings or small dinner parties. A contrast to his work, cooking provides an escape, he says. “When I cook, I'm in charge, and it's done in a day.”
Different tastes: Both Troy and Pam enjoy preparing dishes with ingredients — sometimes unfamiliar ones — from Greenling, a purveyor of locally sourced seasonal foods. Recipes, such as a recent one for Prickly Pear Fruit Salad, are included with the groceries delivered weekly to their door.
Source: San Antonio Express