Jack Abramoff's Chef Morou of Signatures

By JULIETTE ROSSANT What happens when politics and not food sustain a restaurant? The Washington Post's Judith Weinraub interviewed Chef Morou Ouattara to find out. Chef Morou rose to prominence under super chef Mark Miller at Red Sage, which became a favorite restaurant of President Clinton's in the 1990s, but the kitchen in question of late has been Signatures, the restuarant owned by disgraced mega-lobiest Jack Abramoff (see Post summary), which closed November 16. To read the full article, click here. Not to worry much: Chef Morou is now one of the owners of the new but unnamed restaurant. And the restaurant before the Abramoff scandal won serious acclaim (see The New York Times.) And Chef Morou made news throughout last year, whether connected to (The Boston Globe, Daily Kos, The Hill, Washington City Paper) or separate from the Abramoff scandal (2005 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Today Show). He won a RAMMY Award from the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington. The best press of all may be his landing an appearance on Iron Chef America which has gotten him mention from the District of Columbia's Mayor's Office, Washington Life Magazine PR for Signatures is handled by Linda Roth. Previous articles: Plame-Rove Affair: Culinary Institute of America [first White House executive chef - complete] [Chefs & Politics - complete] Technorati Tags: superchefblog, Juliette Rossant, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, blogging, food blogging, Jack Abramoff --> back to superchefblog