Vote for The Optimist’s Adam Evans as Food & Wine’s The People’s Best New Chef 2014

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Adam Evans, executive chef at The Optimist, recently learned he’s one of 100 innovative chefs across the U.S. nominated for Food & Wine’s The People’s Best New Chef 2014® award! Find Evans on the Southeast slate and vote! Online polls are open through Monday, March 31. Every vote counts toward determining a winning chef for each region and thus identifying Food & Wine’s 10 best up-and-coming chefs. Evans continuously wows The Optimist guests with addictive upscale fish shack dishes. Read his short bio then help spread the word via Twitter or Instagram using the #PeoplesBNC hashtag.

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We like to travel vicariously. Food & Wine Travel Editor Gina Hamadey’s tweets take us all over the map from Brooklyn to Aspen to Palm Springs and beyond, sharing fun bites and tempting nibbles of great eats she discovers in each destination. No need to pack a suitcase – just follow Gina!

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He loves the audible and edible and goes with his gut instincts on "yeas" and "ehhs." Daniel Gritzer is food editor at Food & Wine magazine. While his job involves lots of food, wine and words (example, his blog at http://www.danielgritzer.com), he's happy to tweet (@dgritzer) his opinions in 140 characters or less for word dieters.