Bill Jackson, Chef And Restaurant Executive, 54
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Bill Jackson Chef, Restaurant Executive
Bill Jackson, 54, a chef praised for his Modern American cuisine and a
partner in a prominent local restaurant group, died March 1 [2008] at
his home in Churchton [Maryland].
He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often called Lou Gehrig's
disease.
Since 2000, Mr. Jackson had been a corporate executive chef and
partner with Great American Restaurants, which owns Carlyle,
Sweetwater Tavern, Coastal Flats, Artie's, Silverado, Mike's
"American" and Best Buns Bread Co.
He formerly spent 12 years as executive chef and managing partner at
Best Buns and Carlyle, long known as Carlyle Grand Cafe in Arlington's
Shirlington Village.
In 1994, Washingtonian magazine called Mr. Jackson "the person mainly
responsible for [Carlyle's] reputation as a wonderful place to eat,"
with a menu based on the fundamentals of French cooking but with Asian
influences.
The Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington named him chef
of the year in 1995.
William Arthur Jackson III was born in White Plains, New York, and
raised in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He was a 1976 honors graduate of
the Culinary Institute of America.
Afterward, he was hired by chefs Pano Karatassos and Paul Albrecht to
work at their resort, the Lodge of Four Seasons, at Lake of the
Ozarks, Missouri.
He later spent nine years as chef at their highly rated fine-dining
restaurant, Pano's & Paul's, in Atlanta.
Great American Restaurants is scheduled to open a Reston restaurant
this fall in Mr. Jackson's honor, Jackson's Mighty Fine Food and Lucky
Lounge.
His hobbies included sailing, windsurfing, ice hockey, gardening and
playing banjo.
Survivors include his wife, Peggy Kelly Jackson, whom he married in
1980, of Churchton; three children, Ryan Jackson of Shady Side
[Maryland], and Lindsay Jackson and Zach Jackson [Maryland], both of
Churchton; his mother, Patricia Jackson of Riverside, Connecticut; two
sisters, Susan Jackson-Sharpe of Bethesda [Maryland] and Nancy Jackson-
Reno of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; and a brother, Kirk Jackson of New
York [New York].
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