Duskie Estes, Zazu and Bolovo
Duskie Estes began cooking at the age of five in her EZ-Bake oven. She is a graduate of Brown University. Growing up in San Francisco, she fell in love with everything restaurant through her weekly Wednesday night dinners out with her father. She worked at Lucky's/Al Forno (Rhode Island), 21 Federal and Kinkead's (Washington DC), Green's and Glide Church (San Francisco), Baywolf (Oakland), Share Our Strength (Washington DC and Seattle), and Dahlia Lounge, Etta's Seafood, and Palace Kitchen (Seattle, WA.). During her two-year tenure as chef at Palace Kitchen, she was voted City Search's Seattle Best Chef in 2000, and Palace Kitchen was rated by Gourmet magazine as one of the top five Seattle restaurants in 2000 and in the nation's top 50 restaurants in 2001. She was coauthor on Tom Douglas's Seattle Kitchen, which received the James Beard Award in 2001. In 2007, Duskie was a fierce competitor on the Food Network Challenge.

In 2001, Duskie and husband John Stewart opened ZAZU restaurant + farm in Santa Rosa. ZAZU was named a TOP 10 best new restaurant of 2002 and was listed in the San Francisco Chronicle’s TOP 100 restaurants in 2003, 2004, and 2005. In 2005, Duskie and John opened BOVOLO in Healdsburg. Gayot included BOVOLO in their TOP 40 Cheap Eats in the U.S. and Zagat included BOVOLO in its San Francisco Dining Deals.