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Review of The Hot & Hot Fish Club

Lots of chefs like to pay lip service to the idea ...

Lots of chefs like to pay lip service to the idea of knowing where their ingredients come from, but when you talk to Chris Hastings, you get the sense that there's nothing more important in the world. Hastings is a Food Republic friend and columnist and James Beard Award winner, but above all that he's one hell of a chef. His restaurant is a temple to the bounty of the South and everything from his iconic Hot and Hot Tomato Salad to a three-way Fudge Family Farms pork dish will make you wonder why haute Southern cuisine hasn't taken over the world.