Scully said many business owners don’t have the money or resources to do it themselves, and the restaurateurs know firsthand.

Television cooking shows proved to be a career catalyst for O’Hara-based executive chef Blakely Aluise. Aluise grew up reading cookbooks and binge-watching The Food Network in her quest to learn about ...

At the start of her career, a senior colleague told her: "Just because of who you are, you will have to work harder than most people in the kitchen, because you are female, because you are black ...