{"id":5633,"date":"2011-01-13T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2011-01-13T08:24:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T13:24:43","slug":"chef-ronny-deryckere-dead-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/01\/chef-ronny-deryckere-dead-at-63","title":{"rendered":"Chef Ronny Deryckere Dead at 63"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Deryckere graduated in 1964 from a culinary institute in Brussels. He worked as a pastry chef, chocolatier and confiseur in Belgium, France and Ireland. Later, he moved to Nassau to work as a chef at the Lyford Cay Club.\u00a0 he then worked at another popular private club on Cat Cay.<\/p>\n<p>Ronny returned to Nassau where he opened the Delprado restaurant, and then went on to open the pretigious Graycliff restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>In 1981 Deryckere and his Bahamian wife, Esther, bought the Sun And&#8230; restaurant off Shirley Street.<\/p>\n<p>With Ronny as chef, the couple turned the restaurant into a popular night spot for fine dining.<\/p>\n<p>About two years ago, he left Sun and&#8230; to open the Patisserie Tea Room on Charlotte Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronny Deryckere, 63, a popular Belgian chef who made the Bahamas his home, died suddenly of a heart attack at 7:00am yesterday at the home of a friend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}