Kate Mantilini, Industry Staple

In the few short weeks I’ve been working the “biz”, my stepfather’s restaurant has popped up in conversation several times. The actors I work with often ask me about myself and my background. Inevitably we pass through my public school teacher mother, lawyer father, and reach the point where I admit, “Well, my stepfather’s a chef." "Where?"  "Kate Mantilini!”

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Down and Dirty

Though I do like my fancy, upscale LA restaurants and am tickled pink by an artful drizzle of sauce around a delicately placed meal, sometimes it's good to get down and dirty with your food. I'm talking sauce smeared all over your fingers and mouth, devil-may-care face in the trough kind of eating. I'm talking about BBQ.

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