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Nikki Cascone on Bravo's "Top Chef 4: Chicago"


	Nikki Cascone on Bravo's "Top Chef 4: Chicago"

Nikki Cascone is one of the chefs on Bravo's reality cooking competition, "Top Chef 4: Chicago."

Nikki Cascone

operates 24 Prince Restaurant in New York City as the chef and co-owner. Trained for many years in back of house and in front of house operations with great chefs like Jean-Georges, Shaun Doty and Anne Quatrano,

Nikki Cascone

believes a great chef must understand how to run a business as well as possess outstanding cooking skills.

Nikki Cascone

is also a certified sommelier with extensive wine knowledge.

Nikki Cascone

loves not being restricted to any one particular cuisine and experiments with flavors and ingredients from all over the world.

Nikki Cascone

considers growing up in New York to be the best culinary education one can obtain and says her family and friends constantly tease her about how passionate she is about food.

Nikki Cascone

's future plans are to expand her restaurant group with several new concepts.

Age: 35
Hometown: New York, New York
Profession: Chef / co-owner - 24 Prince
Culinary Education: A.O.S Culinary Arts, School of Culinary Arts
Favorite Simple Spring Recipe: Fresh English peas with shallot, grape tomatoes, pecorino cheese and fresh mint