The Chef’s Touch offers gourmet foods and full-service catering that emphasizes wine country cuisine. Kurt describes it as "passion-based cooking" - food cannot be separated from emotion and story and every dish is a form of expression. A fourth-generation Californian, Kurt brings 32 years of cooking experience to The Chef’s Touch, having reigned in the kitchens of grand hotels and distinguished independent restaurants in both California and Washington state. One of his mentors was Gernot Leitzinger, former chef to the Prince of Austria, with whom he worked side by side at the Old Europe Restaurant in Pacific Grove, but it’s fair to say that Kurt’s grandmother and mother were major influences, too.