Chefwear, a kitchen-clothing catalog that prints 1.5 million copies per year worldwide, has chosen some of Denver’s top toques as the publication’s cover boys and girls on five editions.
Featured faces are: Food Network star and D-Bar restaurant owner Keegan Gerhard and his partner/wife, Lisa Bailey; Elway’s Cherry Creek executive chef Tyler Wiard; Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria owner Mark Dym; Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and other chefs from Frasca Food and Wine; Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg; and Big Red F executive chef Jamey Fader.
Why the notable nod?
“Denver has a great food scene,” said Carol Mueller, Chefwear’s vice president of sales and marketing. “I think things are starting to happen and pop.”
Denver’s talent pool of savory and sweet chefs came to Chefwear’s attention after the group Denver Five was asked to make a return appearance at the famed James Beard House in New York City, where they cooked their fingers off and wowed the crowd.
“The Denver Five had just done a dinner at the James Beard House, and we did some jackets for them for the dinner,” Mueller said. The Denver Five, who often cook together for local charities, are Wiard, Fader, Gerhard, Troy Guard and Matt Selby.
Many other Denver chefs — including foodie folks from Panzano, Rioja, the Culinary School of the Rockies, Gateaux bakery, Jax Fish House and Bistro Vendome — are featured modeling chef gear inside the glossy catalog.
The stealthy Mueller slips into a targeted town a couple of months prior to shooting. If she spots enough appropriate locations, she contacts the chefs to set up a shoot in each of their restaurants.
“We like a mix of different types of restaurants when we select who we feature in our catalogs,” she said.
Flying the coop.
Steve Snyder, Frontier Airlines’ chief spokesman, is taking wing and leaving the airline at the end of the month.
Snyder will lead corporate communications for ProBuild, a national supplier of building materials based in the Tech Center.
“The last two years at Frontier have been a tremendous learning experience, and I wouldn’t trade my time here for anything,” Snyder wrote in an e-mail. “The people are incredible, and I’ll continue to fly Frontier, as I trust you will — shameless plug.”
Owens moanin’.
Former Gov. Bill Owens, a partner in a Denver-based investment firm, attended World Series Game 6 in New York on Wednesday, but his plans were cut short when the Yankees beat the Phillies, ending the Series.
Owens, who sent a text from the game, had intended to attend Game 7. Whom was he rooting for?
“Phils cause I am a Nat’l League fan — and cause they beat the Rox, which means we would have been beat by the World Champions,” Owens texted.
Not this time, pal.
Eavesdropping.
Two women in the bar at Elway’s Cherry Creek:
“Is this plant real?
“Yeah.”
“Well, it must be the only real thing here.”
Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-630 AM. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.
