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Paul
Roller No, he's not Amish...he has just cultivated that beard since college.  Paul Roller,
Chestnut Hill born and bred, learned to cook out of self-defense...his
mother being of the eat-to-live school and Paul living to eat. His first
kitchen bible was the 1959 manual, The Boys' Cook Book, by Helen Evans
Brown and Philip Brown...a book full of great basic recipes with just
enough quirky twists to engage a curious teen and make the book viable
and interesting 40 years later.
Fresh out of Penn in '74 with an English lit degree, Paul thought he'd try out the restaurant business and took a minimum wage position scrubbing mussels and making salads at Steve Poses' Frog (one of Philadelphia's Restaurant Renaissance originals). Within a few short years, he'd become the executive chef for Poses' mini restaurant empire. By 1982, he was ready to strike out on
his own, and a bit of space in a tiny shopping plaza was found right in
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