{"id":5032,"date":"2013-11-05T10:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T17:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2013-11-10T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T17:33:42","slug":"charlie-trotter-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/05\/charlie-trotter-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Trotter Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Charlie Trotter, famed Chicago chef, found dead in home<\/h1>\n

By Rosemary Regina Sobol, Jeremy Gorner, Phil Vettel and Mark Caro\u00a0|Tribune reporters<\/em><\/p>\n

\"image<\/a><\/center>Charlie Trotter, whose eponymous Chicago restaurant was considered one of the finest in the world, has died.<\/p>\n

The 54-year-old chef was found unconscious and not breathing in his Lincoln Park home this morning and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

“My baby’s gone,” Trotter’s wife Rochelle told the friend, Carrie Nahabedian.<\/p>\n

“Charlie was a trailblazer and introduced people to a new way of dining when he opened Charlie Trotter\u2019s.\u00a0 His impact upon American cuisine and the culinary world at large will always be remembered.”<\/p>\n

Trotter burst on the scene in 1987, when the self-taught chef opened Charlie Trotter\u2019s restaurant on Armitage Avenue. In short order, the chef\u2019s intense creativity and never-repeat-a-dish dictum made Trotter\u2019s the most talked-about restaurant in Chicago, and his fame quickly spread throughout the country and beyond.<\/p>\n

He was named the country\u2019s Outstanding Chef by James Beard Foundation in 1999; in 2000, Wine Spectator magazine called Trotter\u2019s the best restaurant in the nation. More awards and accolades followed, including a 2002 Beard Award for Outstanding Service; at the time, Trotter called it the award he was most proud to receive, as it represented \u201ca team award.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mercurial chef was a stern taskmaster who demanded the absolute best from everyone who worked for him. He was also a man of uncommon generosity, creating the Charlie Trotter Education Foundation to provide scholarships for culinary students. He received the James Beard Foundation\u2019s Humanitarian of the Year award in 2012.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full obit at The Chicago Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Chicago Tribune Charlie Trotter, famed Chicago chef, found dead in home By Rosemary Regina Sobol, Jeremy Gorner, Phil Vettel and Mark Caro\u00a0|Tribune reporters Charlie Trotter, whose eponymous Chicago restaurant was considered one of the finest in the world, has died. The 54-year-old chef was found unconscious and not breathing in his Lincoln Park […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}