🍗 🥗 🍞 Feed Me: Catching Up With 'The Dish' 🍗 🥗 🍞

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First up: Chef Jorge Vallejo (October 5), owner of Quintonil in Mexico City. Michelle Miller visits with him at his new restaurant Ixi'im on the Yucatan Peninsula, where he prepares 'humble ingredients with a modern flair.'

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: None, he didn't get to make the trip.

Chef Ellie Krieger (October 12) visited in-studio to promote her new cookbook Whole In One, shared her 'evolution' to learning to eat healthier and share Greek-style chicken, butternut squash soup, and chocolate chip sheet cake. Those and additional recipes here.

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: None! I blame them skipping straight to dessert for throwing the segment off-track.

San Diego's Chef Anthony Wells of Juniper & Ivy stopped by with barbecued carrots, linguine and clams with creamed corn, shrimp and smoked pork belly, and passion fruit gin & tonic.

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: 🍸🍸🍸🍸 A jacketless Jeff was clearly feeling this one.

Midwest Made author and baker Shauna Sever (October 26) changed things up with 'midwestern classic' cucumber salad, a 'beery' quick bread and German-braised brisket (recipes here).

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: 🍺-1/2  In his defense, no one seemed excited about drinking red beer.

Native Californian Chef Whitney Otawka (November 2) came by with 'a little taste of the southeast coast,' where she now lives and works: Fish, shrimp and grits; cast-iron fillet beans with piperaid; fried oyster salad; and the rum-based cocktail, 'The Old Man And The Sea.' (Recipes here.)

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: 🍹🍹🍹 "Awesomeness." Rum may be Jeff's Achilles heel.

Beet-enthusiast Chef Cassidee Dabney (November 9) who went from the Four Seasons Hotel Group to the Barn at Blackberry Farm near Knoxville, Tennessee, brought a spread that included pecan butter and roasted beets, herb-roasted rack of lamb and apple crisp. (Recipes here.)

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: 🍷🍷 Jeff lost the jacket again and the ladies at the table seemed more excited for red wine than he did.

Chef Geoff Rhyne (November 16) brought 'a fall Southern brunch' with candied bacon, coastal crab cakes over blistered okra, poundcake with bourbon-pecan butter and the Red Clay Bloody Mary.

Jeff Glor Toast Rating: 🥂🥂🥂🥂 Jacket back on but collar and tie clearly loosened, I don't think that was Jeff's first Bloody Mary of the morning.