Edible Monterey Bay

Chef group honors Tim Wood, Tene Shake, Tanja Roos and Richard Supat

Chef Tim Wood with Paul Lee
Chef Tim Wood with Paul Lee
June 3, 2014 – The American Culinary Foundation’s Monterey Bay Chapter bestowed its annual awards on Sunday night to Tim Wood, Tene Shake, Tanja Roos and Richard Supat at its 2014 President’s Gala fundraiser at the Portola Hotel. Wood, Carmel Valley Ranch’s executive chef, expressed the sentiments of many in the collegial and warm community of local cooks and chefs when he accepted the award for “Best Celebrated Chef.” “I say you’ll never work with a better bunch of people than in Monterey County,” said Wood, who has cooked all over the country and should know. “It’s a family thing. I’m very proud to day thank you, thank, thank you.”
Paul Lee, Tene Shake and Bert Cutino
Paul Lee, Tene Shake and Bert Cutino
Tene Shake, the youngest of the Shake family of Monterey restaurateurs and chefs, received the association’s top honor of Chef of the Year, which takes into consideration the chef’s contributions to the community and the association. Shake, who is also president of the local AFC chapter’s board of directors, used the opportunity to honor another chef, his father, Tabu Shake, who personally cooked his six boys lunch every day and brought it to them at their Monterey schools, he said.
Tanja Roos Director of MEarth
Tanja Roos
Director of MEarth
As she accepted the AFC’s Humanitarian Award, Tanja Roos, the new executive director of MEarth, the Carmel Valley garden-based youth food and environmental education program, gave all of the chefs a homework assignment. “All of you need to come visit—you have a formal invitation to visit from me tonight,” Roos said, adding that she looked forward to forming partnerships with them in the future.
Richard Supat and Paul Lee
Richard Supat and Paul Lee
Also on Sunday, before the celebratory audience of 210 chefs, purveyors and their patrons finished with silent and live auctions, heard from a comedian and headed out to their afterparty, the group gave its Purveyor of the Year award to FreshPoint and to Richard Supat, who recently moved from FreshPoint and to Russo’s Wholesale Produce. Photos courtesy Michael Troutman  http://dmtimaging.com  
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SARAH WOOD—founding editor and publisher of Edible Monterey Bay—has had a life-long passion for food, cooking, people and our planet.

She planted her first organic garden and cared for her first chicken when she was in elementary school in a farming region of Upstate New York.

Wood spent the early part of her career based in Ottawa, Canada, working in international development and international education. After considering culinary school, she opted to pursue her loves for writing, learning about the world and helping make it a better place by obtaining a fellowship and an MA in Journalism from New York University.

While working for a daily newspaper in New Jersey, she wrote stories that helped farmers fend off development and won a state-wide public service award from the New Jersey Press Association for an investigative series of articles about a slumlord who had hoodwinked ratings agencies and investment banks into propping him up with some early commercial mortgage securitizations. The series led Wood to spend several years in financial journalism, most recently, as editor-in-chief of the leading magazine covering the U.S. hedge-fund industry.

Wood now lives with her family in Washington, DC, where she is a freelance writer and manages communications for Samaritan Ministry, an antipoverty and antiracist nonprofit that provides struggling Greater Washington residents with highly personalized and compassionate life counseling and coaching.