Chris Waugh has found her niche. She's put together all the disparate elements of her working life -- communications, marketing and sales -- and paired them with her passion: wine. "My husband  

Emile Salti is a scientist -- a food technologist who has traveled the world. He buys only the best local meat and produce for the homey Mediterranean restaurant he and his wife opened 18 years a  

After 30 years as a technologist, De Stewart quit his job and decided to become a herbologist. Under the moniker Colonel De Ray, Stewart runs a shop front in the historic Findlay Market, and his   

Jean-François Flechet has come a long way from Liège, Belgium. Nine years ago, Flechet came to the United States to complete a doctorate in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.   

Cristian Pietoso and his dad, Nicola, graduated from the same school -- the Culinary Institute of Florence (Italy) -- about 30 years apart. So it wasn't much of a stretch when he agreed to come   

Lisa Kagen, owner of Melt in Northside, has an approach to health that goes beyond eating well. Learning her way through the stress of opening her restaurant, developing a successful staff and ba  

After graduating from the New England Culinary Institute, Steve Hellmich (aka Graeter's Candy Man) found his way to the Cincinnati area and cooked for luminaries such as Allen Greenspan, Craig C  

Primavista expects a lift from the new City Lights development. The Italian fine-dining favorite, located in the Queen's Tower apartments-turned-condos, is at the top of Price Hill and in the ce  

Like many of us, Michelle Brown grew up when there wasn't much of a food culture in America -- in the dark days before TV shows like Top Chef and Emeril Live ruled cable -- but she always loved  

French-born Philippe Audax graduated from L'Ecole Hôtelière de Paris when he was 18 years old and embarked on a career that would see him working in France, Bermuda, Boston, the White H  

You wouldn't think that the owner of a classy Korean restaurant would be thrilled to have a Wild West saloon move in next door, but Mark Jang thinks Deadwood is "neat." The owners have cleaned  

Steven Hubbell made his way to Vinyl from his hometown in Detroit six months ago after he and owners Roula David and Michael Spalding hooked up on Craig's List. The three are creating a flourish  

These days, if you go to Quatman's Café in Norwood, you're not as likely to see its owner Albert Imms as you might have been in 1966 when he bought the place. A back injury keeps 66-year-o  

Stefan Kraus fell into his career by accident. "I was 17 and working as a river guide in West Virginia. You got paid more if you cooked meals," he explains. "So I started cooking." That winte  

Barbara Kenny's Irish dishes at Molly Malone's really are home cooking. She just returned from a visit to the Emerald Isle, where she grew up and where her brother is the chef at the West Count