Biographies
Chefs, founders, past presidents, and honorees who shaped the association.
6 biographies
- ChefUndated
Clarence A. "Jay" Culter
Chef, Hungerford Hotel, Seattle; Treasurer, Pacific Northwest Chefs de Cuisine Association; proprietor, Betty and Jay's Phinney Ridge Cafe & Lounge
He came up through five cities as a bellhop and pantry cook, was certified by four state associations, and ended behind his own counter baking pies. Chef of the Hungerford Hotel through the middle 1950s and twice treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Chefs Association, he survives in twenty-five photocopied pages of a book his family kept — and in not one of them a date of birth or a date of death.
- Past President3 December 1929 – 12 February 2019
Claude V. Sedenquist
Executive Chef, Ivar's Restaurants; President, Pacific Northwest Chefs de Cuisine Association, 1964–65
Executive chef of every Ivar's kitchen by thirty-four, and president of the Pacific Northwest Chefs de Cuisine Association in 1964–65. He rose through one company — assistant chef at twenty-three, head chef at twenty-five — and the dossier exists because he lent Darrell Anderson his scrapbook.
- Past Presidentd. 10 April 2011
Darrell Anderson
Chef-Manager, Rose's Highway Inn; Past President, Washington State Chefs Association
Hired as a cook at Rose's Highway Inn in 1954 and ran it as chef-manager from 1964 to 1968; president of the Washington State Chefs Association in 1970–71 and again in 1980–81; contributed recipes to the association's 1976 Favorite Recipes cookbook; namesake of the Darrell Anderson Culinary Archives.
- Educator1908–1995
Hubert J. Eickman
Chef; Department Head of Culinary Arts, Edison Technical School, Seattle
A Kashubian-Wisconsin farm boy who bussed tables at thirteen and spent twenty-nine years teaching Seattle how to cook. Instructor at Edison Technical School from 1943 and head of its food and restaurant trades department from September 1956; the teacher who trained Darrell Anderson, whose archive this is.
- Educator5 February 1925 – 6 June 1995
Josef “Joe” Sir
Executive Chef, Rainier Golf and Country Club; Culinary Apprenticeship Instructor, 1971–1991
For twenty years he taught the classroom half of Washington's culinary apprenticeship; six of his apprentices carried his coffin. He arrived in Seattle from Czechoslovakia in the middle 1960s, already about forty, and the record of the four decades before that is a single line on a funeral card. What survives instead is what forty people who trained under him sat down and wrote nine weeks after he died.
- OtherUndated
Rose Wilcox
Founder and owner-manager, Rose's Highway Inn
Founder of Rose's Highway Inn. She and her sister Sarah Atkinson ran the Colman Lunch in Seattle's Colman Building for twenty-two years before opening on Highway 99 in 1939, and she ran the inn for the next twenty-five, retiring on its silver anniversary in 1964 at seventy-five.