Jim Jeffords: A Southern statement

Some young chefs have all the luck, and Jim Jeffords is one of them. Presently the executive chef of Evening Star Cafe, Jeffords spent four and-a-half years working under one D.C.’s most outstanding chefs, Eric Ziebold, executive chef of CityZen. “He teaches cooks how to cook and how always to be thinking ahead,” he explained. ” ‘You have to be four steps ahead or you will always be a step behind,’ was one of his favorites. He gives you recipes plus freedom, and tells you how he wants things to taste.”