"As they say in Nantucket, don't give up the ship. Just keep going. Because on the other side is an answer that you may not have known that you needed."
-Chef Mary Dumont, Celebrity Chef & Co-Founder of PlantPub
On this week’s episode of the Eat Green Make Green Podcast I sit down with the amazing Chef Mary Dumont. Chef Mary is a celebrity chef and my business partner and the creative force behind our soon to launch plant-based concept, PlantPub. Mary got her start in the hospitality world as a server in San Francisco. When a chef didn’t show for a shift, Mary offered to jump into the kitchen, and she never left. Her career has since spanned from San Francisco to Sonoma to the New Hampshire Coast to Boston and beyond. She was the first ever New Hampshire based chef to be named by Food & Wine Magazine as “Best New Chef,” she has made numerous television appearances on Iron Chef and The Today Show, she has opened a Zagat “Most Anticipated Restaurant in the Country,” she has been named Boston Eater’s “Chef of the Year,” she has opened a Boston Magazine “Best New Restaurant,” and has received countless other awards. We talk about Mary’s upbringing, her career path and when she started to become widely known, the many challenges she’s faced, how the slaughter of a young lamb has changed her approach to food, her passion for local and sustainable food, what she’s most excited about with PlantPub, and why all of us in the hospitality industry need to just keep going.
