Moments With Marianne

The Recipe: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Ingredients of Greatness with Chef Charles Carroll & John David MannChef Charles Carroll is an eight-time Culinary Olympian who travels the world speaking on championship thinking and personal greatness. Charles won his first Culinary Olympics gold medal at the 1988 games at the age of 24, and has since participated in the quadrennial Olympics as team member, coach, and judge. He was named one of the year’s Great Country Inn Chefs by the James Beard Foundation and is past president of the World Association of Chefs Societies, with over 10 million members in 105 countries. For his work with U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2011 and 2013, Chef Carroll was personally commended by U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. In 2013 he was awarded the Honorable Order of Saint Martin by the U.S. Army. Chef Carroll currently serves as Executive Chef of Houston’s River Oaks Country Club, the third busiest country club in t