Hugh Acheson is a chef and food writer who lives in Athens, GA. He is the chef/owner/partner of the Athens, Georgia, restaurants 5&10 and The National, the Atlanta restaurants Empire State South, Achie’s, and coffee shop Spiller Park Coffee. His cookbook, A New Turn in the South won the award for Best Cookbook in the field of “American Cooking” by the James Beard Foundation in 2012. His second cookbook is Pick a Pickle was released in 2014 and his third, The Broad Fork, was released in the spring of 2015. His fourth book, The Chef and the Slow Cooker, was released in the fall of 2017. Food & Wine Magazine named him Best New Chef in 2002 and the James Beard Foundation awarded him Best Chef Southeast in 2012.

Hugh competed in Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, Season 3 and starred as a judge on Top Chef, Seasons 9 thru 13. His thoughts about Canada, college football, crappy television, current events, politics, and old Far Side comics can be found on Twitter and on Instagram @hughacheson.