In article >,
"Dee Randall" > wrote:

> Just curious, has anyone ever heard of or listened to this couple, or the
> restaurant?
>
> http://www.kfi640.com/pages/IntheKFI...article=459713
>
> In the KFI Kitchen
> with Mary Sue & Susan
> Inspired by a love for bold flavors and strong statements, Mary Sue Milliken
> and Susan Feniger have made their mark with home cooking from all over the
> world. For over two decades, the chefs have transformed street foods and
> comfort foods into critically-acclaimed cuisine, and themselves from a
> couple of Midwestern gringas into two of the country's foremost authorities
> on the Latin kitchen. Trailblazers from the start, the classically trained
> culinary grads (Susan from The Culinary Institute of America and Mary Sue
> from Washburne Culinary Institute) met in1978 at Le Perroquet, one of
> Chicago's best French restaurants. They were the first women to break into
> the all-male kitchen. Serious about food and ready for new territory, they
> struck out for France, Susan for the Riviera and Mary Sue for Paris, knowing
> even then they would work together again some day.

Back in the old days, when FoodTV actually had some interesting content,
their show was one of my faves. Nothing particularly fancy, but good and
mostly interesting stuff well presented and with some charm. The current
crop of preening megalomaniacs are an incredibly poor replacement.

That said, they became less interesting in trying to globe-trot and
deal with cuisines outside their usual Latino stuff.