Jasmine Rice

Chef Hugh Acheson knows how to make the perfect jasmine rice. It's one of many fundamental recipes he includes in Seed Life Skills, a new home economics program he launched in Athens, Georgia, middle schools. Acheson is a chef/partner of the Athens restaurants 5 & 10 and The National; the Atlanta restaurant Empire State South and coffee shop Spiller Park Coffee; and the Savannah restaurant The Florence.

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Hugh Acheson

Hugh Acheson

Hugh Acheson is the Canadian-born chef and restaurateur of Empire State South in Atlanta and Five & Ten in Athens, Georgia. He is a judge on the reality cooking competition series Top Chef and an Iron Chef on Iron Chef Canada.

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