“Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.”

American executive chef, restaurateur, author, and radio talk show host

Tom Douglas is an American executive chef, restaurateur, author, and radio talk show host. He won the James Beard Award for Best Northwest Chef in 1994 and the James Beard Award for Best Restaurateur in 2012. He wrote Tom Douglas' Seattle Kitchen, which was named Best American Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation and KitchenAid in 2001. In 2005, he appeared on Iron Chef America on the Food Network and defeated chef Masaharu Morimoto.