Cafe Atlantico chef has mastered challenge of creativity

Published December 17, 2008 5:00am ET



On her days off, Terri Cutrino may be found taking inventory, as she was doing on a recent gloomy Monday.

But it’s easy to imagine that, as the new executive chef of Penn Quarter’s buzzy Cafe Atlantico, Cutrino probably finds scarce time during the normal week for such housekeeping tasks. After all, as a longtime cook in the Jose Andres THINKfoodGROUP kitchen squad, Cutrino knows a thing or two about what it takes to stays on her game in this high-profile, high-pressure setting.

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