Chef Edward Lee and the Lee Brothers Perform a Live Cooking Show! 

Louisville Chef Edward Lee, of the restaurants 610 Magnolia and MilkWood, will team up with writers Matt Lee and Ted Lee, authors of three award-winning cookbooks about the South, to present a live cooking show in the Bingham Theatre. 

“The Boiled Peanut Hour” is an hour-plus-long cooking, storytelling, and trash-talking show that sees the three Lees cooking favorite dishes from the Southern canon that illuminate strongly-held beliefs about what it means to be a southerner. Bourbon tastings are included during the show, and afterward, a reception featuring a selection of the recipes from the show, prepared by MilkWood, will take place in the Sara Shallenberger Brown Lobby of the Theatre. The reception will offer an opportunity to meet the players and purchase autographed cookbooks. 

Tickets are $45 and include the show, food and wine reception, and book-signing. 

Advance tickets at $40 are on sale until April 30. A limited number of VIP tickets are available, which include an after-show dinner and cocktails with the Lees. 

Edward Lee is one part Southern soul, one part Asian spice, and one part New York attitude! A Korean-American who grew up in Brooklyn, Lee trained in New York City kitchens but has spent the last decade honing his vision at 610 Magnolia restaurant in Louisville, KY. His innovative culinary style has made him a five-time nominee for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef Southeast. He’s been featured in Esquire, Bon Appétit, GQ, and Gourmet, among many other publications, and has written articles for magazines such as Gastronomica, Food & Wine, Organic Gardening, and The Local Palate. His first cookbook, Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen, which earned raves from critics and readers nationwide, was published by Artisan Books in May of 2013. 

Lee is also widely known for his work in television: he was subject and host of “Mind of a Chef,” for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and he was the hands-down audience favorite of “Top Chef: Texas, Season 9.” Lee reigned victorious on Food Network’s “Iron Chef America: Battle Tongue and Cheek,” and has appeared on numerous shows, including Cooking Channel’s “Foodography,” the CBS “Early Show” and NBC’s “The Today Show.”

In addition to 610 Magnolia, Lee owns and operates The Wine Studio, a dining room and cooking class venue, and a modern speakeasy called MilkWood, located in The Actors Theatre of Louisville. In May, he will open Succotash, in Baltimore, MD, his first restaurant outside Kentucky. He lives with his wife and daughter in Louisville. 

Matt Lee and Ted Lee grew up in Charleston, SC. When they left to attend colleges in the Northeast, they so missed the foods of their hometown that they founded The Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalogue (boiledpeanuts.com), a mail-order and web catalogue for southern pantry staples and boiled peanuts. When an editor of a travel magazine asked them to write a story about road-tripping their home state in search of great food, they embarked on a second career as food journalists and cookbook authors. Since 2000, they have been contributing editors for Travel + Leisure and have written hundreds of features on food and wine for national magazines and newspapers. 

The Lee Bros. three cookbooks, The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook (2007), The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern (2009), and The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen (2013) have won a combined six James Beard and IACP Awards. They were on-air commentators for all seven seasons of The Cooking Channel’s Unique Eats and their first stand-alone show, Southern Uncovered with The Lee Bros. premieres on Ovation this June. Ted lives with his wife in Brooklyn, NY; Matt lives with his wife and their two (soon to be three!) sons in Charleston, SC. 

For Accessibility information, call the Box Office at 502-584-1205 or email boxoffice@actorstheatre.org