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Dining Editor Barbara Brown's Culinary Biography




Barbara Brown
Senior Dining Editor


Hailing from the distant shores of New Zealand is our resident female restaurant editor, the "wonder from down-under", Barbara Brown. She's not a newcomer to Las Vegas, but Barbara recently married her long time love in May 2004 right here in Las Vegas at a wedding chapel on The Strip! A fun, upbeat person, her friends affectionately call her "Kiwi".

Barbara's love for cooking was born at a tender age in her mother's kitchen where she learned to bake from "scratch" and took over the preparation of the family meal. Family and friends became guinea pigs as Barbara experimented. Always curious and searching for new ways to prepare and serve dishes, she developed her passion for the art of cooking.

After fifteen years of successful management and telecommunications experience, Barbara has now been pursing her lifelong passion for the culinary industry:

A (soon to be graduate) of the Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts here in Las Vegas, she is currently working at Bradley Ogden in Caesars Palace. This highly acclaimed local restaurant (run by the famed chef Bradley Ogden) just won the James Beard Award for the nation's best new restaurant.

Barbara is also very involved with Chefs for Kids and was instrumental in the start up of a Las Vegas WCR Chapter (Woman Chefs and Restaurateurs). This organization promotes the education and advancement of women in the restaurant industry and the betterment of the industry as a whole.

Dining reviews and culinary writing are just one step in Barbara's long list of career accomplishements. She is working on writing a cookbook (or two), hosting a cooking show, dabbling in the field of personal chef-dom by working in the personal chef field and helping other chefs develop their personal chef skills. She thrives in sharing all of these experiences with other budding culinarians by helping teach the culinary arts.

However, her curiosity was not limited to food. Her wanderlust took her to Europe and Asia where she reveled in regional cuisine and collected recipes and cookbooks along the way. The journey continued as she explored Australia and the many islands close to her native New Zealand learning the culture and foods enjoyed by Norfolk Island, Samoa, Fiji, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Tonga, Bali, and New Guinea.

In 1983 Barbara's travels brought her to the United States. Her first port of entry was Honolulu, Hawaii. There she was introduced to Asian cooking styles, again collecting recipes and trying out newly learned techniques.

Barbara has traveled extensively throughout the United States savoring the delights of each region adding to her cookbook collection. Of particular note is the infamous wine country in the Napa and Sonoma areas of Northern California. Barbara's frequent wine tasting excursions have helped her to sharpen her wine-pairing skills.

And the rest, as they say, is history. Let's join Barbara as she takes you on a magical culinary tour of Las Vegas!

Barbara Brown's Latest Las Vegas Dining Reviews:

Restaurants: If your information needs inclusion, updating, or you would like us to perform a more in-depth write-up (no charge), please click to contact our office.

Barbara and her team from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts took first place in the JW Marriott Las Vegas holiday ginberbread culinary arts competion 2003!

Barbara (second from left) along with competition partners Pamela Dickinson, Andrea Grimmer and DonO'Neil:

Barbara and Le Cordon Bleu competition team along with Le Cordon Bleu faculty:

Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts

Located in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada, the College boasts the combination of a world class training center and one of the world's top vacation destinations. That means opportunity, excitement and fun while you learn. The College's association with Le Cordon Bleu represents a union of the finest in European and North American culinary arts training programs available today.

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