Cannabis is taking its turn in the culinary spotlight.
In restaurants and private dinners across the country, top chefs are using the subtle flavors, smells, and effects of cannabis to enhance their food and drinks, giving restaurant patrons a sensorially unique dining experience.
Although a valid marijuana medical card is required to consume any of the dishes mentioned in the article, that may change with the passing of California’s Proposition 64. Check out the full story to read each chef’s take on cooking with hash, healthy eating (including appropriate dosing levels), and the future of cannabis dining.
Michael Magallanes
Chef Michael Magallanes photo from Emily Mazzei.
Age: 32
Where: San Francisco
Culinary chops: Magallanes trained on the job, cheffing at San Francisco Michelin-starred restaurants Mourad and Aziza.
Style: Molecular gastronomy meets NorCal vegetarian
Payton Curry
Chef Payton Curry
Age: 38
Where: Berkeley, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz.
Culinary chops: A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York, Curry is a veteran of Michelin-starred kitchens, including Quince and the late Ame in San Francisco and now-shuttered Martini Bar in St. Helena. He’s taught at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Scottsdale.
Style: Whole plant comfort food.
Mindy Segal
Chef Mindy Segal, photo from Cresco Labs
Age: 50
Where: Chicago
Culinary chops: A James Beard Award-winning pastry chef and best-selling author of the cookbook Cookie Love, Segal attended Kendall College Culinary Arts School in Chicago and worked in some of the Windy City’s best restaurants over the past 30 years, including Michelin-starred Charlie Trotter’s. In 2005, she opened Mindy’s Hot Chocolate Restaurant and Dessert Bar.
Style: Culinary-quality candies
Holden Jagger
Chef Holden Jagger, photo from Altered Plates
Age: 33
Location: Malibu
Culinary chops: Named one of Zagat’s 30 Under 30 culinary rock stars in 2013, Jagger entered the restaurant business at a sushi bar in the San Fernando Valley in 2004 and worked stints as a pastry chef at Town Hall, Salt House, and Anchor & Hope in San Francisco before moving on to a sous chef job at Craft, celebrity chef Tom Colicchio’s formerly Michelin-starred farm-to-fork restaurant, and pastry chef jobs at Muddy Leek and the private club Soho House, all in the Los Angeles area.
Style: Farm-to-table fabulousness.
Scott Durrah
Chef Scott Durah, photo from Simply Pure
Age: 52
Where: Denver
Culinary chops: “I’ve been a chef since I was 6 years old,” said Durrah, who, as an adult, has launched five restaurants, including The Jamaican Cafe in Santa Monica in 1991 and, in 2012, Jezebel’s Southern Bistro & Bar in Denver, which he closed last year to focus on cannabis.
Style: Health-conscious Carribean
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