Slade Grove: Caramelpalooza Candymakers

Amy Silverman March 7, 2011 8:18AM

The caramel sampling continues today with last year's Caramelpalooza winner in both the blind judging and peoples' choice award categories, Slade Grove.

Grove is the Executive Pastry Chef for Wicked Kitchen Gourmet and Cookies From Home in Tempe.

I ended up in the kitchen because I decided it was time for a career change and have always enjoyed baking.

My favorite dish to make is my 10 lb Lasagna. It's still a baked good....

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Find out why Grove doesn't like to cook with seafood after the jump.

One dish I'm afraid to make is anything with seafood. I'm allergic.

My favorite kind of candy is caramel. Soft, buttery, chew caramel.

Caramel should be over the top in taste, texture, uniquiness, and calories!

I always brush my teeth after every meal.

Find Slade and 11 other chefs at Caramelpalooza, Friday, March 11, from 7 til the caramel runs out, Smeeks candy store, northwest corner of Central and Camelback.

Catch up with the other candymakers we've profiled so far:

Tammie Coe, Eugenia Theodopolous, Charlie Blonkenfeld, Meghan Olesen, Veronica Arroyo, Brianne Day, Virginia Senior

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Amy Silverman is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child. She’s the co-curator of the live reading series Bar Flies, and a commentator for KJZZ, the NPR affiliate in Phoenix. Silverman is the author of the book My Heart Can’t Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome (Woodbine House 2016). Follow her on Instagram (@amysilverman), Twitter (@amysilvermanaz), and at amy-silverman.com.

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