'Chef in the hat,' KIRO Newsradio host Thierry Rautureau dies at 64
James Beard Award-winning chef and former owner of several Seattle restaurants, Thierry Rautureau, died Sunday after a long battle with pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disorder, according to his family. He was 64.
His radio and longtime friend, Tom Douglas told KIRO Newsradio he received a long-awaited lung transplant in early October. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to save Rautureau.
Known as “the chef in the hat,” Rautureau was the executive chef and owner of Rover’s Restaurant in Seattle, where he won his James Beard Award in 1998. He also opened the French café Luc in Madison Park in 2010, named after his father, and Loulay Kitchen & Bar in 2012. Both closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Rautureau was also the co-host of “Hot Stove Society” with Douglas, a fellow James Beard-winning chef Douglas, which has aired weekends on KIRO Newsradio 97.3 FM for nearly 20 years over two different stints. Their work on KIRO Newsradio began again most recently in 2012. The show was first called “Seattle Kitchen,” but the name changed after the pair opened a cooking school, called Hot Stove Society.
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I used to listen to their show. The guy was two years younger than me.
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