As noted in this month’s Hideaway Report, Traci Des Jardins is the chef and co-owner of Manzanita, the superb signature restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe. Originally from a farming community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Des Jardins is of French-Acadian and Mexican descent. She apprenticed as a prep cook at Joachim Splichal’s 7th Street Bistro in Los [...]
