Hello Friends! Over on Tik Tok I’ve begun a series that showcases my love of cookbooks. Sometimes books on food and food culture as well. Over the years beginning with a fateful single purchase I’ve assembled a library that has enriched my life and made me, in part, the chef…
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The Vision of Van Aken
The excellent journalist Alona Abbady Martinez wrote of my career in the Boca Raton Observer this week. I can’t thank her enough for the kind and thorough article she penned. She is an author that I hope you all will check out. Please read and let me know your thoughts!…
Norman Van Aken remembers Jimmy Buffett
Greetings from Key West! Or at least a trip down Memory Lane. Amy Drew Thompson can follow a winding road as you will see when you read this story about me and ‘The Eternal Honorary Mayor of Margaritaville’! The chef & the rock star: Norman Van Aken remembers Jimmy Buffett…
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
IN THE NEWS and ON AIR NOW! ‘Norman’s Florida Kitchen’ Season One. Join us as we share my love of cooking & traveling around the beautiful, diverse and delicious Sunshine State. We are now airing on Amazon Prime. We do market visits, hear some music and tell some stories on…
Norman Van Aken featured in Florida Foodie
Hi All! Recently I was up with our team at my new restaurant in Orlando just off Sand Lake Road in the Dellagio Plaza. The kind folks at the newscast ‘Click Orlando’ had me on their show, “Florida Foodie”. The digital storyteller is Thomas Mates and the hosts were Anchor,…
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…
Chef Norman Van Aken Stars in New TV Show
Courtesy: Orlando Sentinel Norman Van Aken is an accomplished chef, recipient of a multitude of James Beard acknowledgments among other culinary honors. He is an accomplished restaurateur. He is the author of many acclaimed cookbooks, but also one heck of an entertaining memoir, one that helps showcase why adding “TV…
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…
Miami Luxury Magazine May/June 2023
NORMAN’S Orlando was recently featured in the May/June 2023 Edition of Miami Luxury Magazine….
Smoking Fish and Listening to ‘Layla’
Last week my good friend Amy Drew Thompson … who also is the Food Editor of the Orlando Sentinel asked me if I had a memories of smoked fish I’d like to share with her readers. Amy a.k.a. ‘AD’ is person of journalistic energy like few I’ve known. She loves…
MIMI SHERATON; OUR “KITCHEN CONVERSATION” 2015
Back in late 2015 I had the pleasure of doing one of my “Kitchen Conversations” with the one and only Mimi Sheraton. She passed away this past week at the glorious age of 97. She lived one helluva a life. One with passion, integrity, humor and grit. I hope you…
Resident Living Magazine
Courtesy: Resident Living
Resident Living Magazine wrote and published this fine article on our new location and restaurant in Orlando. Click the link and have a read! Even better … come dine with us soon! #normans #normanvanaken #orlando #newworldcuisine #jamesbeardawarded #residentlivingmagazine…
On the term “Floribbean Cuisine”
Recently my work was written about on a site named, “Tasting Table”. The author didn’t interview me. We have come to a place in time when this is more the case than ever. I’m not hard to locate online so that is perplexing to me. As you will see and…
NORMAN’s Opens on Orlando’s Restaurant Row
“Founding Father of New World Cuisine” unveils new culinary concept featuring both fine dining and inspired casual cuisine experiences under the same roof. Now open, NORMAN’S is a 7,300-square-foot culinary destination offering both fine dining and casual cuisine experiences, in addition to two private event spaces. The dramatic 80-seat Main…
Live with Norman Van Aken – a discussion on “Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter”
Through sheer luck and the billions of things that lead us from one road, one town, one job interview to another I met Charlie Trotter. He went on to become one of the most admired, celebrated and sometimes feared chefs in America. The documentary, “Love, Charlie” gets past the quick…