Katie Button’s Recipe for Resilience Through Crisis and Competition
About this episode
Chef Katie Button discusses her journey in the restaurant industry and the importance of resilience during crises.
From biomedical engineering to the high-stakes kitchen of “America’s Culinary Cup,” chef Katie Button has spent 15 years building Cúrate into an Asheville icon. In this episode, she breaks down the systems that sustain a decade-plus legacy, the reality of Asheville’s recovery, and a critical "operator’s warning" on the gaps in business interruption insurance. We explore how her scientific background fuels her culinary precision and why she believes restaurants remain the most beautiful—and vu...
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Guest: Katie Button
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Organizations: Cúrate
Places: Asheville
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