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Owner and chef Ruth Gresser grew up cooking with her mother, who owned a catering business
in Baltimore. Ms. Gresser cooked her way through Grinnell College in Iowa before moving to
San Francisco, where she cooked for several years at Friends a Cafe and at Le Trou Robert.
In 1987, she graduated summa cum laude from Madeleine Kamman's Classical and Modern French
Cooking School in Glen, NH. She then moved to Washington, DC, where she has helped open four
popular restaurants: Pizzeria Paradiso Dupont Circle, Pizzeria Paradiso Georgetown, Blue Plate
and Obelisk. Ms. Gresser has been the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions, including
the Women's Chefs and Restaurateurs Madeleine Kamman Scholarship and a guest chef appearance
at Alice Waters' renowned Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA. She has also been profiled in The Washington
Post Magazine, The Washington Business Journal and by Georgetown University Television. Ms. Gresser
has been a chef demonstrator, contributor and panelist for The Smithsonian Institution and for
FreshFarm Markets in Washington, DC.
She is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier and Women Chefs and Restaurateurs.
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