Chef Gold studied restaurant management at the University of Illinois, and then attended L'Ecole Hoteliere de Tain L’Hermitage in France’s Rhone Valley. After graduation, she apprenticed for a period of two years at Michelin-starred French restaurants including Michel Chabran, Albert LeCompt, Jean Marc Reynaud and Le Gourmandin. When she returned to Chicago in 1987, she was promptly hired by world-renowned Charlie Trotter’s. There she spent several years working her way through each cook position and fine-tuning her already considerable skills.
In 1989, unable to resist the call of Europe, Chef Gold returned to France to help run the restaurant of a good friend. She worked as an executive chef at L’Albion in Nice for two years. After returning to Chicago in 1991, Gold became the pastry chef at Everest and then executive chef at Mirador until 1994.
When Kansas City’s American Restaurant was in need of a new chef, it was a perfect match. Esquire named Debbie a “Chef to Watch” in 1997, the same year she received the first of three nominations for James Beard Foundation “Best Chef: Midwest.” In 1999, Gold won!
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