Monday, December 15, 2014

CIC Grad Chef Trey Dutton Shares His Holiday Chutney Recipe



A native of Brunswick, Georgia, Chef Trey Dutton grew up in Summerville, South Carolina. He is a 2004 graduate of the culinary arts program at the Culinary Institute of Charleston at Trident Technical College. In 1999, Chef Mike Lata gave Trey his culinary first job in the kitchen at Anson. Trey went on to work for Chef Lata at FIG from 2003 to 2005. Subsequently, he held the position of Lead Sous Chef at the Sea Island Company’s property, The Cloister, in Sea Island, Georgia, operating the 100 Hudson dining room, and of Chef de Cuisine at The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, in Bluffton, South Carolina.

Trey developed his own company in 2014, Southern Keep, where he produces small batch artisan pickles and preserves. This began as an outlet for him to “share his love for pickling and canning, especially by recreating his great-grandmother’s recipe for ‘Cement Pickles.’” He describes them as a “super-crisp, sweet and tangy original. My great-grandmother's recipe, infused with lots of love over the course of the three days it takes to make them.”

In August 2014, Trey was hired by the Indigo Road Group, where he will serve as Executive Chef at their Mercantile & Mash and The Cedar Room properties at the Cigar Factory, scheduled to open in June, 2015. Mercantile & Mash will be an emporium with a coffee shop, bar, bakery, lunch counter and culinary mercantile on the ground floor; The Cedar Room is a private event space above it. In the interim, Trey is working at the Indigo Road Group’s properties Oak Steakhouse, in Charleston and Alpharetta.

Trey and his wife Ellen have a four-year-old daughter, Avie Jane, and live in West Ashley.

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