{"id":195620,"date":"2024-01-16T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/?p=195620"},"modified":"2024-01-16T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T18:02:14","slug":"meet-executive-chef-richard-leonardo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/meet-executive-chef-richard-leonardo\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Executive Chef Richard Leonardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_195623\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195623\" class=\"wp-image-195623 \" src=\"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Richard-Leonardo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"person standing in front of a brick wall\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Richard-Leonardo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Richard-Leonardo-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Richard-Leonardo-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Richard-Leonardo.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-195623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard \u201cRick\u201d Leonardo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Auxiliary Services welcomes Richard \u201cRick\u201d Leonardo as executive chef for Syracuse University Campus Dining.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo\u2019s culinary path began in his teenage years, when he worked at his family\u2019s Central New York restaurant. He received his culinary degree from The French Culinary Institute in New York City, then honed his skills working with the Daniel Boulud Restaurant Group.<\/p>\n<p>Leonardo returned to Central New York to work as an executive pastry chef, then found his passion in collegiate dining with American Dining Creations, where he has spent the last 10 years developing menus for 29 colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>Read on to learn more about his goals and initiatives:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auxiliary Services welcomes Richard \u201cRick\u201d Leonardo as executive chef for Syracuse University Campus Dining. Leonardo\u2019s culinary path began in his teenage years, when he worked at his family\u2019s Central New York restaurant. He received his culinary degree from The French&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":195622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post-type":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","post_format-post-format-chat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195629,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195620\/revisions\/195629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.syr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}