SUSAN FENIGER & MARY SUE MILLIKENMary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are award-winning chefs, cookbook authors, television personalities, and entrepreneurs. The chefs may be best known for their Modern Mexican Border Grill concepts in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, effortlessly blending their classical culinary training with conscientiously-sourced ingredients, and regional recipes inspired by home cooks from Oaxaca to Mexico City, street vendors in Tijuana, and taco stands along the Yucatan and Baja coasts.Trail blazers from the get-go, the culinary grads (Susan from Culinary Institute of America in New York and Mary Sue from Washburne Culinary Institute in Chicago) met in 1978 at Le Perroquet, one of Chicago’s best French restaurants, as the first women to break into the all-male kitchen. Serious about food and ready for new territory, they both struck out for new adventures–Feniger went on to work for Wolfgang Puck at Ma Maison in L.A. and then honed her skills at L’Oasis, a three-star restaurant on the French Riviera, and Milliken went on to chef at the woman-owned two-Michelin-star Restaurant D’Olypme in Paris–knowing even then that they would work together some day.