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Chef Rochelle Burgess plates dessert at her pop-up event at Mad River Brewing on June 10. Photo by William Burgess
Chef Rochelle Burgess Says Hello A Brooklyn transplant shows what she brings to the table By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill
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ochelle Burgess has worked in some big-name chefs’ kitchens in New York City and Brooklyn, including those of Daniel Boulud, Francois Payard, Tom Collichio and Dale Talde. But asking about the studio kitchen of the TV cooking competition Chopped will get you a groan and a laugh. If you manage to dig up her
2017 appearance as a contestant, fresh from her job as sous chef at Brooklyn’s Fort Defiance, you’ll see “a very young me not knowing what she was doing because she was just thrown to the wolves,” says Burgess, who adds it was an interesting experience and she’d give it a shot again, despite how strange it was to cook with cameras everywhere. “I went on national
