Residents of the Astoria at Aramore have enjoyed great meals at Restaurant Eugene, which is located on the bottom floor of the Aramore building, for years but now Atlanta’s best-kept secret is out. Restaurant Eugene’s head chef, Linton Hopkins, was recently named in July’s Best New Chef issue of Food & Wine magazine. The criteria to decide the best new chefs consisted of cooking food that is personal, creative and delicious. Editors visit these restaurants anonymously to secret judge the meals and the chef.

Linton Hopkins is one of 10 winners for 2009 and the only one from Georgia. He offers six of his very own recipes to encourage next year’s batch of top chefs or just a great family meal. His recipes for brandied peaches, bread-and-butter pickles, bucatini carbonara, chowchow, pimento cheese and strawberry preserves are easy enough for the novice chef but delicious enough to be worthy of any get together.

These recipes and more can be found at the Food & Wine website or in the July 2009 issue.

Tags: Food & Wine, Linton Hopkins, Restaurant Eugene, The Astoria at the Aramore

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