![](../imgs/webcasts/2003/Cmasterclass_Jimmy.jpg) |
Jimmy
Sneed |
Jimmy
Sneed’s true culinary initiation came while studying
in Paris, in 1974, where he had taken a job translating for
the American students at Le Cordon Bleu cooking school.
After
a year in Paris, Sneed returned to the United States and pursued
a career in cooking. Frustrated by the level of cuisine to
which he was exposed, he eventually sought a mentor to teach
him about great food. Luck was with him, as he spent the next
seven years learning from two of the greatest chefs in America,
Jean–Louis Palladin and Guenther Seeger. These chefs
were, at the time, the only Michelin-rated chefs in the country.
Sneed
left Washington D.C. for Urbanna in 1987 and opened the nationally
acclaimed The Frog and the Redneck in 1993, in Richmond, Virginia.
While the “Frog” of The Frog and the Redneck was
meant, in general, as a tribute to what the French have contributed
to modern cuisine, it also honors Chef Palladin. “He
made me a chef,” says Sneed.
Sneed
was also chosen by Julia Child as a featured chef in her series
“In Julia’s Kitchen with Master Chefs”.
In fact, he was the only chef in the series to have two shows.
He has appeared on TV over a hundred times and has been a
featured chef at Disney World, on the Discovery Channel’s
“Great American Chefs” series, the TV Food Network,
CNN, PBS, Headline News, and for a year had a weekly spot
on WWBT-12, the NBC affiliate in Richmond.
In
addition, Sneed was twice nominated for the James Beard Award
for “Best American Chef”, Mid–Atlantic region,
and was twice invited to participate in the prestigious Masters
of Food and Wine event in Carmel, California.
|