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Matt Gaffney is a professional crossword puzzle constructor and author [1] who lives in Staunton, Virginia.His puzzles have appeared in Billboard magazine, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Beast, [2] Dell Champion Crossword Puzzles, GAMES magazine, the Los Angeles Times, [3] New York magazine, the New York Times, [3] Newsday, The Onion, Slate magazine, [4] the Wall Street Journal, [3] the ...
He was drawn to puzzles at an early age; in eighth grade he wrote a paper titled "Puzzles as a Profession". [4] (The paper earned him a B+.) [4] At age 13, Shortz wrote to Language on Vacation author Dmitri Borgmann for advice on how to pursue a career in puzzles. [5] At age 16, Shortz began regularly contributing crossword puzzles to Dell ...
In 2001, Achatz advanced to position of Executive Chef at Trio in Evanston, Illinois, which at the time of his arrival had a four-star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide. Over the next three years, with Achatz at the helm, Trio's reputation soared, [ 5 ] and in 2004 the restaurant was rewarded with a fifth star from Mobil, becoming one of just ...
Chef Douglas Rodriguez opened Alma de Cuba in Philadelphia with Garces as his executive chef in 2001. Garces opened his first restaurant in 2005, Amada, named after his grandmother. The Spanish tapas restaurant was followed by restaurant concepts with locations in Philadelphia, Chicago, Arizona, [ 4 ] New Jersey, Palm Springs, [ 5 ] Washington ...
Dávila grew up in the Chicago suburbs and began working at her parents’ taqueria when she was 10. Her professional career is considered to have started at Hacienda Jalapeños, an upscale restaurant owned by her parents. Phil Vettel of the Chicago Tribune gave her a two star review while the Chicago Sun-Times called her a Mexican marvel. [2]
Williams worked for nearly 20 years at mk in Chicago's River North neighborhood, where he started as a salad chef and in 2008 became executive chef and eventually part owner. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 3 ] In 2018 Williams opened Virtue in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, hiring Damarr Brown , who had been his sous chef at mk, as chef de cuisine . [ 5 ]
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The puzzle proved popular, and Sulzberger himself authored a Times puzzle before the year was out. [11] In 1950, the crossword became a daily feature. That first daily puzzle was published without an author line, and as of 2001 the identity of the author of the first weekday Times crossword remained unknown. [13]