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Irv Miller (Chef)
Florida Panhandle Chef Irv Miller is and has been the Executive Chef at Jackson’s Restaurant in Pensacola FL, since he founded it with his partners in 1999. He received national acclaim for being one of the originators of “New Florida Cooking” and for being a “pioneer of Florida Coastal Cooking” in the panhandle in 1990, by host of CNN’s “On the Menu” Carolyn O’Neil. Miller has been on multiple television shows and even preformed as a television chef and host on “Flavors of The Coast” (a 51-episode WSRE’s PBS cooking show), as well as cooking with Emeril on “Emeril’s Florida” TV cooking show in 2014, and as a guest judge on Bravo’s Top Chef (Charleston), Season 14, Episode 6: A Southern Legend, Tribute to Edna Lewis in 2016. He was an assistant to legendary American Chef Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock on multiple Southern food events in New York City, Charleston S.C., and Seaside, Florida. Miller has been written about or published in numerous publications of all varieties, including 2 books of his own; “Pan to Panhandle: Recipes and Stories from Florida’s New Redneck Riviera” and “Gulf Coast Oysters: Modern and Traditional recipes of a Southern Renaissance”. In addition, he collaborated on books for the “Flavors of the Coast” Cookbook Series with WSRE Public Television 2001-2004. He also contributed recipes to numerous publications such as “Lodge Cast Iron Nation” cookbook in 2013, “Good Food: The Cookbook” in 2020, and “Men Who Cook Cookbook” 2020. Chef Irv Miller has received numerous accolades over nearly 4 decades.

Early Life
Miller graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1982. Miller’s Florida panhandle career started after he relocated to Destin Florida that same year at Les Saisons and served as sous chef, and later becoming chef. He began as executive chef at Seaside’s Bud & Alley’s restaurant (Santa Rosa Beach) in 1987 to 1993 where he gained recognition for his cooking; fusing Florida regional ingredients, local seafood with Mediterranean-influenced flavors.

Jackson’s Steakhouse Restaurant and History
On March 12, 1999, Chef Miller along with business partners Barry Phillips and Walter Steigleman collaborated to bring downtown Pensacola a new upscale restaurant. Jackson’s Restaurant, showcases Southern-Influenced American cuisine, highlighting aged beef and native seafood. Jackson’s was later purchased by Collier Merrill and his brothers Burney and Will in 2008; owners of Great Southern Restaurant Group, and the restaurant name was changed to Jackson’s Steakhouse. Miller currently resides as executive chef.

Located at 400 South Palafox Street in downtown Pensacola FL on the bottom floor of what use to be the building that originally housed H Pfeiffer& Company Mercantile is Jackson’s Steakhouse. The building named after the United States of America’s seventh president Andrew Jackson and bearing his signature as its’ own logo. Jackson’s was revitalized in 1998 by architect Brian Spencer and his partners to recognize the historic event of General Andrew Jackson raising the American Flag in Pensacola for the first time in July of 1821 in the plaza Ferdinand the building itself overlooks.

Career Philanthropy/ Competitions and Awards
1983: Apalachicola Seafood Contest, First Place winner 1985: Exotic Seafood Exposition, Ft. Walton Beach, First Place winner 1996: Great Menu Contest, National Restaurant Association, winner 1993: City Meals-On-Wheels, New York, assistant to Chef Edna Lewis 1992: Symposia on Southern Food, Middleton Place, South Carolina, assistant to Chef Edna Lewis 2000-2002: Share Our Strength, Organizer and Co-Chair for Pensacola region Taste of The Nation Between 1999-2018: Seville Crab Cake Cook-off to benefit A.R.C., Pensacola, eight time award winner

2002:Emerald Coast Magazine, featured as one of the Great Chef’s of Florida’s Northwest 1992: Symposium on Southern Food, Seaside Fl., assistant to Chef Edna Lewis 2000-2002: Share Our Strength, Organizer and Co-Chair for Pensacola region Taste of The Nation 1992-1994: Women in Wine, Chef participant, Sandestin Wine Festival 1991-1995: Taste of The Town, Destin, numerous awards, American Cancer Society 1994 and 1996: Great Southern Gumbo Contest winner, Sandestin, Florida 1999-2001: Fiesta Seafood Grille, Pensacola, guest chef, Chef and The Child Foundation 2008: Pensacola Celebrity Chefs (Visit Pensacola), Founding chef member 2009: Pensacola Celebrity Chefs prepared luncheon for King Juan Carlos 1 and Queen Sophia of Spain 2012: Sandestin Wine Festival, local Celebrity Chef Demonstrator 2012: Great American Seafood Cook-off, New Orleans, represented the State of Florida Since 2008: “Save The Third for Chef Irv” Jackson’s Steakhouse monthly cooking class series 2013-2015: Slow Food "Community Cooks" event 2000 Florida Trend Best New Restaurant

2001-2008 Florida Trend Golden Spoon Award 2009-2020 Florida Trend, Golden Spoon Hall of Fame 2015 and 2016: Outstanding in The Field, Featured Guest Chef in Apalachicola

James Beard Foundation Events
"Jackson’s Founding Executive Chef, Irv Miller, has prepared dinner at the James Beard house for six one-of-a-kind events."

1993: James Beard Foundation, assistant Chef Scott Peacock, and Chef Edna Lewis’s 77th Birthday Celebration and Living Legend Award 2001: James Beard Foundation, guest chef, prepared a Gulf Coast Thanksgiving dinner, just after 911

2011-2014: Pensacola Celebrity Chefs, James Beard Foundation, prepared consecutive annual historical Pensacola and Southern food dinner events

Cookbooks:
Published 2015: Panhandle to Pan: Recipes and Stories from the New Redneck Riviera Cookbook Published 2018: Gulf Coast Oysters: Classic and Modern Recipes of a Southern Renaissance

Contributions to:
WSRE's Public Television-Flavors of The Coast cookbook series 1-3, 2001-2004 1990 and 1993: RSVP Favorite Recipes,

Bon Appetit 1991: Too Busy to Cook 2, Bon Appetit Recipe Year Book

Excerpts and Mentions
Carolyn O’Neil, 1991 CNN “On the Menu”, of Irv Miller…“ Some of the state’s most innovative cooking”

Joseph Wayne, Florida’s Restaurant Trends, July/August 1991, “Chef Miller, The pioneer of Florida Coastal Cuisine, is known for innovatively incorporating local regional foods into extraordinary provincial style Mediterranean dishes.”

John Egerton, Southern Food, April 15, 1992, of Irv Miller… “ A great chef and fellow southerner”

Birmingham Magazine, August 2000, The Best of the Gulf “…an adventure…look for Chef Irv Miller to improvise on stated menu items to keep the cuisine lively.”

J. Christopher Lowe, Pensacola Today, June 2001, A meal orchestrated by Miller is nothing short of “extraordinary.”

Robert W. Tolf, Florida Trend, March 2002, “…Jackson’s, home of the Crab Cake King”…Chef Irv Miller blazes trails of his new Florida Coastal Cuisine and preaches its gospel far a field.”

Chef Henry Haller, Author of the White House Cook Book, White House Chef- Retired, March 2003, “Excellent Food”

Robert W. Tolf, Florida Trend, 2006 Action at Jackson’s “Florida's Mango Gang is not confined to the Gold Coast, although that's where it has the greatest name and fame for Floribbean fare. There are outlying fringes all over the state, notably in northwest Florida in the unique village of Seaside, where Bud & Alley's blazed all kinds of culinary breakthroughs. It's where Irv Miller, graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, settled in for almost six years of hands-on exposure to        all the exciting flavors of New Florida cooking.” Virginia Willis, Secrets of the Southern Table, 2018 on Florida seafood, pg. 76

Television Shows and Appearances
1990 CNN “On The Menu”, New Florida Cooking

1992 Edna Lewis Documentary “ Fried Chicken and Sweet Potato Pie” 1996 and 1997: Florida Style cooking show, Ft. Walton Beach

ESP Coastal Cooking, Pensacola, frequent filming for local cooking show 1999-2012: WSRE Food and Wine Classic, Pensacola, award winner, non-profit public broadcasting 2002 to 2005: Flavors of the Coast, Cooking Show, WSRE PBS, Chef/Host 51 episodes 2012 MSNBC Morning Joe “Come for the beaches, stay for the business” with Governor Rick Scott and Collier Merrill 2014: Emeril’s Florida- Filmed Live Pensacola episode with Emeril Lagasse, Food Network 2016: Bravo's Top Chef Charleston, Guest Judge, Season 14, Episode 6: A Southern Legend, Tribute to Edna Lewis

Columns and Articles
Irv has been featured articles or has been mentioned in the following publications: Bon Appetit, Food Arts, Food and Wine, Travel and Leisure, Florida Living, Florida Trend, Florida Restaurant Trends, Nation's Restaurant News, Southeast Food Service News, Coast Food, Easy Food, Florida Restaurateur, Florida Travel, Restaurants USA, Emerald Coast Magazine, Okra. Magazine, Birmingham Magazine, Pensacola Today, Vip Pensacola, In Weekly, Pensacola News Journal, Bella Magazine, Apalachicola Times, Southern Coast Home, Southern Breeze, Paula Deen, and Southern Living Magazines.

Web Links
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https://www.emeraldcoastmagazine.com/what-you-should-know-about-oyster-culture/

https://okramagazine.com/2018/11/oyster-and-chorizo-corn-bread-dressing/

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https://www.newsherald.com/news/20190328/chef-shells-oyster-recipes-in-new-cookbook

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