By Susan Hathaway
For the Mercury News
Posted: 06/04/2013 03:00:00 PM PDT
Updated: 06/04/2013 03:26:07 PM PDT
tasty new food venture that, he says with droll delight, “has turned out to be quite the roaring success.”
Backstabbing and profanity may be the route to becoming a television top chef, but David Kinch did it the slow, old-fashioned way, honing his craft over a few decades into the culinary equivalent of a 10th-degree black belt.
In recent years, Kinch and his renowned Los Gatos restaurant, Manresa, have perched at or near the top of all the “best” lists — garnering two Michelin stars for six straight years and multiple James Beard awards — and he has become something of a mild-mannered cooking deity.