Chef Biography
Cory Schreiber was born 1961 into a Portland seafood family, who for generations ran a Portland institution, Dan & Louis Oyster Bar. By age 11 he had started his career at the restaurant. After school, he worked under Great Chefs Lydia Shire and Bradley Ogden before opening his own restaurant, Wildwood, in 1994.
Great Chefs caught up with Chef Cory later that year and taped several dishes for its Great Chefs – Great Cities series for the Discovery Channel. In 1995 the restaurant was named Oregonian’s Restaurant of the Year and in 1998, Chef Cory Schreiber won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Pacific Northwest
In 2007, he sold out his interest in the restaurant and ran the Farm to School program for the Oregon Department of Agriculture. In 2010 he joined the faculty at the Art Institute of Portland where he ran their culinary school. In 2014, the restaurant Wildwood closed its doors.
Recipes
Crispy Dungeness Crab Cakes
Serving: 5 Print Crispy Dungeness Crab Cakes By Great Chefs October 20, 2015 Hot crisp-fried crab cakes top a cool citrus-dressed salad and tomato slices. Aioli spiked with red pepper flakes is drizzled over the crab cakes. Dungeness crab rules in Oregon, but you could substitute local fresh crab meat of other varieties. Ingredients Crab […]
Quail with Brown Butter, Cider, and Sage
Serving: 4 Print Quail with Brown Butter, Cider, and Sage By Great Chefs September 27, 2015 The luxury of butter flavors this dish. Quails are browned in butter — lots of butter — and finished in the oven. They come to the table on a bed of wilted spinach (wilted in butter, of course) and […]