Jody Adams  
Chef/Owner , Rialto Restaurant

Jody Adams is the James Beard Award-winning chef of Rialto, a four-star restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jody describes the menu at Rialto simply as “food I love to eat.” Guided by this rule, her offerings are based on the cuisines of France, Italy and Spain with the occasional dip into North Africa and the Middle East.

In 2002, Jody published her first cookbook, the IACP award nominee, In the Hands of a Chef, written with her husband, Ken Rivard. Outside of the kitchen, Jody is actively involved in organizations that support hunger relief and children's issues, such as Share our Strength, the Greater Boston Food Bank and Community Servings.

Jody lives in Brookline with her husband and two children, Oliver and Roxanne.

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