Interviews with NVA

The Whet Palette Podcast

Hi All! It was my great pleasure to be the guest presenter on the fine podcast, “The Whet Palette”. Host Brenda is one of the most savvy and rigorous folks to interview me. We spoke for well over an hour. We got into my long history of cooking in Florida…

Interviews with NVA

The Whet Palette Podcast

Hi All! It was my great pleasure to be the guest presenter on the fine podcast, “The Whet Palette”. Host Brenda is one of the most savvy and rigorous folks to interview me. We spoke for well over an hour. We got into my long history of cooking in Florida…

Norman's Florida Kitchen Series

Norman’s Florida Kitchen

Coming soon! ‘Norman’s Florida Kitchen’ Season One. Join us as we share my love of cooking & traveling around the beautiful, diverse and delicious Sunshine State. Airing in the early Fall of 2023! Watch for more info on which platforms you can watch it but do know it will be…

Norman's Florida Kitchen Series

Norman’s Florida Kitchen

Coming soon! ‘Norman’s Florida Kitchen’ Season One. Join us as we share my love of cooking & traveling around the beautiful, diverse and delicious Sunshine State. Airing in the early Fall of 2023! Watch for more info on which platforms you can watch it but do know it will be…

Norman’s Orlando

Norman’s Featured in Flamingo Magazine

9 Celebrity Chef Restaurants in Orlando You Have To Try Famed chef and cookbook author Norman Van Aken has a long history of operating successful restaurants in the Sunshine State. His recently-opened Norman’s, located in the Dellagio Town Center of Dr. Phillips, is a must-visit. Norman’s fusion menu includes everything…

Norman’s Orlando

Norman’s Return to Orlando

Hello Everyone! It is time (some might say past time) for an update on our restaurant, NORMAN’S. It has been a very busy time as opening restaurants always are. So please let me share some news with you all! Orlando Weekly food editor Faiyaz Kara review at the link. Now…

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“If the map of the world were a tablecloth, and I could choose a place at that table, I would sit at the Southern tip of Florida, at the nexus of North America and the Caribbean. My plate would touch Cuba, the Florida Keys, the Yucatan, the West Indies, the Bahamas, and South America. And, if time could tell, I would listen to the tales of voyagers, discoverers, traders and mystics who, in searching for “the Indies”, the Great Kahn and the riches of China, discovered something much more valuable and enduring, A New World of Culinary Treasures. Almost instantly, the cuisines of the Old World began to merge with foods of the new one; This evolutionary and inexorable fusion lies at the heart of New World Cuisine.”

— Norman Van Aken, July, 1993
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