Dean Fearing

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Dean Fearing is an American chef known as "The Father of Southwestern Cuisine."[1] He was executive chef for 20 years at Dallas' The Mansion on Turtle Creek, leaving in 2007 to start his own restaurant, Fearing's, in partnership with Ritz-Carlton.[1][2][3][4] He is the host of a national television show, Entertaining at Home with Dean Fearing,[2] airing on Food Network, and author of two cookbooks, Mansion on Turtle Creek Cookbook and Dean Fearing's Southwest Cuisine: Blending Asia and the Americas.[2]

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  1. ^ a b J.L. Becker. "Puttin' on the Ritz: Dean Fearing put Southwestern cuisine on the map at The Mansion on Turtle Creek. He's now moving on," Restaurant Hospitality, October, 2006.
  2. ^ a b c Dotty Griffith. "On Fearing's plate: an exit from Mansion: Star gourmet chef will leave restaurant he made famous to open one of his own," The Dallas Morning News, March 23, 2006. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
  3. ^ "Tacos From A Master: Dallas Chef Dean Fearing, Authority On Haute Southwest Cuisine, Preps Dishes On The Early Show," August 3, 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
  4. ^ Alison Cook. "Dean Fearing’s Dallas Thanksgiving," Food & Wine, November 2007. Retrieved 2008-05-30.