Why This Joint is Called Toqueland

For those who have inquired, this is a toque:

Image by Jean Victor Balin (via creativecommons.org)

’nuff said!

- Andrew

About the Author

ANDREW FRIEDMAN has collaborated on more than 20 cookbooks and other projects with some of America’s finest and most well-known chefs including Alfred Portale, Laurent Tourondel, Michelle Bernstein, David Waltuck, and former White House Chef Walter Scheib. He co-edited the popular anthology Don’t Try This at Home and is a two-time winner of the IACP Award for Best Chef or Restaurant Cookbook. Andrew is an editor at large for TENNIS Magazine and the coauthor of American tennis star James Blake’s New York Times bestselling memoir Breaking Back. In 2009, he published his first nonfiction book, Knives at Dawn: America’s Quest for Culinary Glory at the Bocuse d’Or, the World’s Most Prestigious Cooking Competition. He is currently working on projects with chefs Michael White and Paul Liebrandt.