Rhubarb is a spring vegetable, and like spring itself, its days are tantalizingly numbered. So grab a stalk or two while you can. “The redder the stem, the sweeter the rhubarb,” says Kimberly McCune Gibson, chef and co-owner of Cultivate. “Go for brownish green if...
Family, Food, Community. When one walks through the doors of Hungry Bee, they quickly realize it’s not just about the food. Don’t get us wrong, the food, well….. that’s pretty spectacular too....
Relish the work of Chef Kimberly McCune Gibson, of Hungry Bee, LLC. She is homegrown, a Kenston High School graduate who graduated from the Auburn Career Center Culinary Program before advancing to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York....
Next to the antique green couch where Kim McCune reclines, an oversized photo capturing a colony of bees in magnified detail takes up the better half of the wall. It’s the first thing you’ll likely notice in the newly minted Chagrin Falls shop, the aptly...
If Hollywood ever makes a movie of chef Kimberlyn McCune Gibson’s life, it will probably be called “The Beekeeper’s Daughter.” Gibson — the daughter of former Auburn Township Trustee and local bee expert Gene McCune and his wife, Karen — grew up around her father’s...
“Honey is like wine, in that it is a snapshot in time.” So says Chef Kimberly McCune and she would know. She and I are on our way to Auburn Township, where we’ll walk the family property and snap photos of McCune Family Apiary hives....
Chef Kimberly McCune’s roots are planted deeply in the memory of her Geauga County childhood, where her parents established early, lasting, and intertwining beliefs on the nature of food and community....