When you think of truffles do you first think of France" Italy" Well, culinary vanguard chef Sunny Jin of the Allison Inn & Spa thinks you should shift your attention to his home-state of Oregon. If anyone has the culinary knowledge to make a claim as bold as that, it?s Chef Jin. He graduated at the top of […]The post Pursuitist Epicurean: Chef Sunny Jin, Oregon Garden-to-Table Innovator appeared first on Pursuitist.

When you think of truffles do you first think of France" Italy" Well, culinary vanguard chef Sunny Jin of the Allison Inn & Spa thinks you should shift your attention to his home-state of Oregon.If anyone has the culinary knowledge to make a claim as bold as that, it?s Chef Jin. He graduated at the top of his class from Portland?s Western Culinary Institute where he received the Grand Toque Award. Jin completed his externship at Napa Valley?s famed French Laundry, working for three years under renowned chefs Thomas Keller and Corey Lee. He then went to Sydney, Australia to work at the top-rated restaurant in the southern hemisphere, Tetsuya?s, working alongside chef-owner Tetsuya Wakuda, before progressing to the kitchen at the world?s top rated restaurant, El Bulli, in Catalonia, Spain, under Ferran Adria and Oriol Castro.He returned to the U.S. because he recognized the emergence of Oregon as one of the country?s pre-eminent food and wine destinations. ?Oregon?s commitment to seasonality and local produce most resemble...