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Oct 11, 2012 | EDOT Staff

Austin Newspaper Profiles St. David's Chef

Chef Ray Trono was interviewed by the Austin American-Statesman about his transition from find dining chef to helping cultivate St. David's Cafe Divine. 

 

From the Statesman:

 

Trono, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York, had been the sous chef at the Headliner’s Club in Austin, a private club notorious for its formality, for 10 years when he decided that he was ready to get out of traditional fine dining.

 

“I could do just about everything there without having to think about it. It wasn’t a situation that challenged me,” he says. After a short stint working for US Foodservice as a salesman right around the same time that he started attending St. David’s as a parishioner, the church hired him to expand the church’s food ministry.

 

He took over the small kitchen in the church and started making breakfast for parishioners on Sunday mornings and dinner on Tuesdays and Sundays. Within a year, he added a Thursday lunch that is open to the public. That was 12 years ago and Cafe Divine is still going strong.


Read more at Statesman.com.