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Joel Findlay, 49, creative chef, avid fly fisherman Enjoyed philosophy, debating, and won his employees' loyalty
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Joel Bly Findlay made a career of playing with food, tweaking
culinary standards into innovations like his "bacon, lettuce and
tomato soup."
For 17 years, Mr. Findlay's customers at 302 West Restaurant in
Geneva came to expect gourmet food served up with a lighthearted
attitude, including vivid and humorous wine descriptions, such as one
that compared a champagne to "angels peeing on your tongue."
Six months after learning he had kidney cancer, Mr. Findlay, 49,
died Wednesday at ...
