John W. Makin

Surely missed for all time. Never worked with a better man and/or chef.Always kept you laughing, but was there when you needed him. I've often wondered about him. Surely, surely missed. Work with him in Houston at the Inn on Post Oak Park.

Shocked to hear John has left us , I worked with John in South Africa during the opening of the palace hotel , great chef great boss and a.great person RIP my friend

Deeply shocked and saddened.
Going through archives, I found many memos from/to Chef Makin.
I discovered his passing while attempting to reconnect with an ol pal.

I worked with Chef John at The Remington Hotel- Houston, Tx in the mid 80's.
We also had attended CIA at the same time.
I never forgot John's excellence and creativity, as a chef, administrator, instructor, confidant, and a compassionate, caring human being.

I can hear his personable...

All chefs are cooks, but not all cooks are chefs. Among the thousands I have worked with - including Meisters, Masters, and Meilleur Ouvrier, - I can count on less than two hands those who truly knew how to cook. Of them ..... John was the best. He was a Chefs Chef. He possessed what the rest of us wish we had.

John, Words are not sufficient to relate how you influenced my life. You were a light in the world, a light unto my path. You did more than look. You could see. You had the eye to see, and the desire to see, and possessed an extraordinary capacity to observe. To be able to see, not merely look, is the foundation of all discovery.

Heaven is no faraway place. The body inhabits the soul. It took eyes for the universe to see what it looked like, ears to hear what it sounds like. The...

John was a rare man in this world, and the world is lesser for his passing, yet richer for his life.