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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★James Beard Award Winner 1985 - Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America
★Julia Child Award Winner 2018 (co-recipient with Mary Sue Milliken)
★Elizabeth Burns Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 - California Restaurant Association
★Menu Masters Hall of Fame inductee 2014
★Los Angeles Times Gold Award 2018 for culinary excellence
★Multiple James Beard nominations for radio show and chef categories
Notable Facts
→Co-owner of Border Grill restaurant empire with 40+ year business partnership with Mary Sue Milliken
→Graduate of Culinary Institute of America, worked for Wolfgang Puck at Ma Maison
→Co-authored 6 cookbooks including 'Susan Feniger's Street Food'
→Co-founded Chefs Collaborative and sits on multiple nonprofit boards
→Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses dishes from her first restaurant City Café
→Pioneer female chef who helped transform LA's culinary landscape starting in 1981
→Active LGBTQ+ advocate and board member of Los Angeles LGBT Center
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