Person
Ana Sortun
James Beard Award-winning chef; founder of Oleana (Cambridge), co-owner of Sarma (Somerville), co-founder of Sofra Bakery & Café (Allston + Cambridge) — together the Oleana Restaurant Group. Married to Chris Kurth of Siena Farms; the Sortun-Kurth chef-farm pairing is the canonical Greater Boston farm-to-table model. Author of Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean (2006).
Who they are
Ana Sortun is a James Beard Award-winning chef whose Cambridge restaurant [[oleana]] (2001) defined contemporary Eastern-Mediterranean cuisine in the United States. The Oleana Restaurant Group now also runs [[sarma]] (Somerville, with chef Cassie Piuma) and [[sofra]] (Allston + Cambridge, with pastry chef Maura Kilpatrick). Sortun is the author of Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean (2006), and a frequent collaborator with researchers and producers on the Turkish-and-Levantine-flavor side of contemporary American cooking.
Why this entry
The directory entries for [[oleana]], [[sarma]], [[sofra]], and [[siena-farms-south-end]] all route through Sortun — without this person node, four separate listings sit disconnected on the graph instead of forming the cluster they actually are. Sortun is also the chef-half of the Sortun-Kurth chef-farm pairing that the directory holds up as a canonical model: chef and farmer married, restaurants and farm intertwined for two-plus decades, the group expanding while the supply chain stays tied to the same 50-acre Sudbury operation.
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- Founder of: [[oleana]] · [[sofra]]
- Partner of: [[sarma]]
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