Norman Van Aken is the Chef/Owner of the award-winning
restaurant NORMAN'S in the historic Coral Gables
section of Miami. He is the "Father of New World
Cuisine" and coined the terms, "New World Cuisine"
as well as "Fusion Cuisine." His culinary philosophy
is "to create a marriage of the sensual and rustic
with the classic and intellectual in a celebration
of the various places we live.
Chef Van Aken
has cooked, consulted, written and lectured on
"New World Cuisine" internationally. He has appeared
on CNN, "Good Morning America," "CBS This Morning,"
"TVFN," "Emeril Live" and many other programs.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME,
Newsweek, Charlie Trotter's Cookbooks, Australia's
Vogue and many more. Norman Van Aken is the exclusive
Celebrity Chef for United Airlines for all flights
to Latin America and the Caribbean.
NORMAN
VAN AKEN
1999 Nominated
GQ "Man of the Year: Chef Category"
1999 Food
Arts Silver Spoon Award Winner
1998 & 1999
United Airlines, "Chef in the Sky": Latin America
& The Caribbean
1997 Winner
of the James Beard Foundationís, "Best Chef:
Southeast"
1997 Culinary
Institute of America Graduation Commencement
Speaker
1997 Cooking
Light Magazine: "10th Anniversary Enlightened
Chef Award"
1997 Nominee
Julia Child: "IACP Awards of Excellence, Chef
Category"
1996 Winner
of the "Robert Mondavi Culinary Award of Excellence"
1996 Chef
for "The First International James Beard Dinner,
Mexico City"
1995 Awarded
an Honorary Doctorate from Johnson & Wales University
Author, "NORMANíS
NEW WORLD CUISINE," Random House, 1997
Nominated
"Best Chef Authored Cookbook of 1997" by the
Julia Child/IACP Awards.
Author of
"The Great Exotic Fruit Book and Posters," 1995
Author of
the first book on the new Florida cooking, "A
Feast of Sunlight", 1988
A Featured
Chef on the Discovery Channel's "Great Chefs
of the South"
On the Advisory
Board to Boston's "Oldways Preservation and
Exchange Trust's," and "International Diets
of Latin America"
On the Executive
Board of the American Institute of Wine and
Food, South Florida
NORMAN'S
The New York
Times: "Considered the best restaurant in South
Florida"
Miami Herald:
"NORMAN'S is an extraordinary experience-There
is no other place like it in Miami"
GQ Magazine:
"Golden Dish 1998 Winner"
The London
Sunday Telegraph: "Arguably, the best restaurant
in the Miami, 1998"
Gourmet Magazine:
"America's Top Tables" 1996, 1997, 1998
Playboy Magazine:
"The Top Twenty-Five Restaurants in America,
1998"
Wine Spectator:
"Award of Excellence 1997, 1998"
The New York
Daily News: "Best restaurant south of Paris"
Florida Trend
Magazine: "Winner of the Golden Spoon Award,
1996 & 1997"
Bon Appétit
Magazine: "One of the Best New Restaurants in
the Country, 1995"
Condé
Nast Traveler: "Top 10 restaurants in America"
Nominated
"Best New Restaurant in America, 1995" by The
James Beard Foundation
"Best. Period."
Condé Nast Internet site, "Epicurious"
Awarded "The
Five Diamond Award" for NORMAN'S and Norman
Van Aken
