[2] Early jobs after graduating from CIA include being the chef at the Sakonnet Golf Club in Rhode Island.
[3] In 1986, East Coast Grill opened (in Inman Square, Cambridge, since closed); in 1989, Jake and Earl's Dixie BBQ (in Cambridge and Waltham, since closed) and in 1990, The Blue Room, in Kendall Square, with Stan Frankenthaler.
[5] In 1996, Schlesinger won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef of the Northeast.
[7] He was featured on the PBS show (episode 102) of How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes On America's Chefs.
They also have a monthly feature in The New York Times, and have written numerous articles for magazines such as GQ and Food & Wine.