Speakers & Guests
Adam Sappington
Adam Sappington, Executive Chef and Co-Owner
The Country Cat, Portland, OR
Adam Sappington is the Executive Chef at The Country Cat, the premier made-from-scratch, farm-to-table restaurant located in Southeast Portland. Known for his whole animal butchery and American craft cooking, Adam’s passion for food dates back to his upbringing on the central Missouri farmlands. He moved to Portland to attend Western Culinary Institute and landed at Wildwood Restaurant where he worked his way up from Pantry Cook to Executive Chef over 11 years. Lauded as one of the pre-eminent butchery chefs in America, Adam believes his butchery skill set has made him a more well rounded chef while also supporting farmers and minimizing waste. Adam has been nominated as a James Beard Award semifinalist for Best Chef Northwest in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The Country Cat has been featured on many national TV programs: Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives in 2013, ABC’s The Chew in 2014, and Adam and wife Jackie both competed – and won! – on Food Network’s Chopped program in March 2015. The duo will debut their first cookbook – Heartlandia: Heritage Recipes from The Country Cat (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) – in September