Marcel Desaulniers

Marcel Desaulniers, executive chef and co-owner of the Trellis Restaurant, has been named in Food and Wine's Honor Roll of Chefs and in Cooks magazine's Who's Who of Cooking; in 1988 he became the first chef from the South to be honored by the James Beard Foundation as a Great American Chef; he has been inducted into the American Academy of Chefs, the Honor Society of the American Culinary Federation; and he is on the Board of Trustees of the Culinary Institute of America. In addition, the Trellis Restaurant has won Restaurants & Institutions magazine's prestigious Ivy Award. Marcel Desaulniers is also the author of The Trellis Cookbook, about which Mimi Sheraton in Time magazine wrote, "Unlike most recipes from restaurant chefs, these can be managed by mere mortals with only two hands. A treasury of new American fare."