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#CatTravels: #CatChat with Chef Viktor Schmidt

By Catherine Toth Fox • June 14, 2013 • #CatTravels, Videos

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While in Kona, I had the chance to dine with Chef Viktor Schmidt, executive chef of Rays on the Bay at the Sheraton Kona Resort & Spa at Keauhou Bay.

It’s not everyday you can eat with the chef at his own restaurant.

And it’s not every chef who, instead of raving about his own menu, talks about everything else, including how Siri knew where the oldest orange tree in Hawaii was planted. (Yes, Siri was part of our dinner conversation.)

So here’s a quick chat with the chef about how he got to Hawaii, what’s cooking at Rays on the Bay, and the weird things he prepared once in Alaska:

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4 Comments

  • Reply Annoddah Dave June 14, 2013 at 3:33 pm

    CAT: The Big Island is known for limpets! Some people would consider that weird as fuud.

    • Reply Catherine Toth June 14, 2013 at 4:18 pm

      You talking about opihi? Yeah, I can’t eat that!

  • Reply WildeOscar June 16, 2013 at 8:58 am

    That Viktor is just about the most laid-back guy I’ve ever seen interviewed. Drinking a beer’ seated next to Car and talking about thinga ranging from his Army days in Alaska to serving fish caught in local waters less than a day earlier – now that’s my idea of enjoying life.

  • Reply Yvonne Biegel June 20, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    I love your videos. Can you tell me what kind of camera you are using for your video blogs, and are you using any special sound equipment / microphones?
    Thanks

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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