Andrea Reusing is an American chef, best known for her restaurant Lantern in

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. In 2011, she won the Best Chef Southeast award from the

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Career

Andrea Reusing opened a wine focused restaurant in

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, named Enoteca Vin. She opened her

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based restaurant Lantern in

, in 2002. At her restaurant, she seeks to source the majority of her ingredients locally. In 2011, she was awarded the

for Best Chef Southeast, the same year she had her first

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published entitled ''Cooking in the Moment: A Year of Seasonal Recipes''. The book featured a couple of dishes from her restaurant, but was mostly recollections of dishes from her childhood. Unlike at Lantern, at Reusing's Restaurant at the Durham in

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, she serves

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. She had previously not sought to open a restaurant within a hotel, but the design of The Durham hotel attracted her. She also founded the non-profit organisation Kitchen Patrol, which provides classes on healthy eating to children.

Personal life

She is married to musician

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, and they have two children together.

References

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