John Shields (chef)
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John Shields is an American chef, food writer, and host of the PBS television show Coastal Cooking with John Shields.
Shields is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. After time spent elsewhere, he has returned to Baltimore, where he owns and operates Gertrude's Restaurant, at the Baltimore Museum of Art
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Shields is an expert in regional American coastal cuisine, and in particular the cuisine of his native Chesapeake Bay region.
Shields is a proponent of slow food
and local food
, and is active in related organizations such as the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance, Slow Food
, and the Chef's Collaborative.
Shields is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. After time spent elsewhere, he has returned to Baltimore, where he owns and operates Gertrude's Restaurant, at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Museum of Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, was founded in 1914. Built in the Roman Temple style, the Museum is home to an internationally renowned collection of 19th-century, modern, and contemporary art. Founded in 1914 with a single painting, the BMA today has 90,000 works...
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Shields is an expert in regional American coastal cuisine, and in particular the cuisine of his native Chesapeake Bay region.
Shields is a proponent of slow food
Slow Food
Slow Food is an international movement founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It was the first established part of...
and local food
Local food
Local food or the local food movement is a "collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular...
, and is active in related organizations such as the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance, Slow Food
Slow Food
Slow Food is an international movement founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It was the first established part of...
, and the Chef's Collaborative.
Books
- The Chesapeake Bay Cookbook (Addison-Wesley, 1990)
- The Chesapeake Bay Crab Cookbook (Addison-Wesley, 1992)
- Chesapeake Bay Cooking with John Shields (Broadway Books, 1998)