The National Culinary Review

David Bearl, CCC, CCE, AAC; Willie Lewis, CEC, AAC; Michael Chain, HAAC; Kirk Bachmann, M.Ed., CEC, AAC; Thomas Pepka, CEC, AAC; Theodore Kowalski, CEC, AAC; Robert White, CEC, CCA, AAC; Eric Karell, CEC, AAC; Antonietta Pendleton, CEC, HAAC; Susan Hendee, Ph.D., CCE, HAAC; Frank Leake, CCC, CCE, AAC;

Sharing Culinary Traditions Award. The AAC presents the award annually to one Academy Fellow who has demonstrated unwavering dedication to the education of future culinarians.

The American Academy of Chefs Culinary
Hall of Fame inducted these culinarians:
Donald Antinore, CEC, CCE, CCA,
AAC, HOF, retired executive chef,
Hospitality Solutions Consulting, Le
Roy, N. Y., a member of ACF Professional
Chefs/Cooks Association of Rochester;
Noel Cullen, Ed.D., CMC, AAC, HOF,
ACF National President, 1997-2001
(posthumously); Frederick Dame,

Claude Buzon, HAAC; Christopher McCook, CEC, AAC; Robert Walter, CEC, CCA, AAC; Christopher Donato, CEC, AAC; Hilmar Jonsson, CEC, AAC; Frederick Dame, HAAC, HHOF, HBOT; Charlie Palmer, HHOF; Michel Villon, CEC, CCE, AAC; Jim Douglas, CEC, CCE, AAC, HOF; C. David Wolf, CEC, AAC; Bernard Urban, CEC, AAC, HOF; Hubert

HAAC, HBOT, HHOF, director, Icon Estates Wine, San Francisco (honorary); Jim Douglas, CEC, CCE, AAC, HOF, retired, Marysville, Wash., a member of ACF Washington State Chefs Association; Bernard Urban, CEC, AAC, HOF, chef ambassador, Ben E. Keith Foods, Houston, a member of Texas Chefs Association.

Charlie Palmer, HHOF who has combined his creative cooking spirit and flair for business to open restaurants, wine shops and boutique hotels across the country, was inducted as an American Academy of Chefs Culinary Hall of Fame Celebrated Chef. The honor recognizes

Schmieder, AAC; Mark Webster, CEC, CCE, AAC; Glenn Brown, CEC, AAC; Raymond Delfino, CEC, CCA, AAC; Douglas Fisher, CEC, CCE, AAC; Robert Lombardi, CEC, CEPC, CCE, AAC; Phyllis Arrowood, HAAC; and Gissur Gudmundsson, HAAC. Not pictured: Bobby Moghaddam, CEC, CCE, AAC; and Mark Veomett, CEC, AAC.

individuals for their outstanding achievements in the culinary industry.

As an AAC Culinary Hall of Fame Celebrated Chef, Palmer joins James Beard, HHOF (1903-1985), known as “the dean of American cookery;” Thomas Keller, HHOF, chef/owner, The French Laundry, Yountville, Calif., a member of ACF National Chapter; Patrick O’Connell, HHOF, chef/proprietor, The Inn at Little Washington, Washington, Va., a member of ACF National Chapter; and Charlie Trotter, HHOF, chef/owner, Charlie Trotter’s, Chicago, a member of ACF Chicago Chefs of Cuisine Inc.