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Deuel laughs as he reminisces – looking over at the same Little Stove children’s cooking toy, which was discovered on eBay and still works, “It was pretty funny to plug it in and watch it, and think … I cannot believe my mom let me play with this … oh, huge fire hazard … it’s so old it has one of the cords that are wrapped in cloth.” He started frying eggs … again and again in the vintage toy stove. It had such an impact on his gastronomic beginnings that “The Little Stove” is the name of his and wife, Liz Tracy’s, new restaurant that is slated to open late September. His career as a chef progressed astronomically from frying eggs. Deuel notes, “I really got into cooking when my family moved to Cincinnati, so between my sophomore and junior year of high school … I would experiment with favorite cookbooks, and I would probably mess up two recipes out of every three that I tried. I was very self-taught. I didn’t have my mother guiding me, but I would cook on a daily basis.” The following are some of the impressive experiences, positions and more in Deuel’s resume: a master’s degree in Italian cuisine; an internship at 2-mission star Ristaurante San Domenico in Italy in 1999-2000; sous chef at the Rainbow Room, which is located at the top of the Rockefeller Center; executive chef at Regional in New York City; and time at Giorgio Armani’s restaurant on 5th Avenue. By this time, Deuel had met Liz Tracy and the two went together to Chicago for the expansion of Tom Colicchio’s 2015 Bravo series Best New Restaurant winner, Dolce Italian. Deuel had personally been asked by Dolce Italian’s executive chef, Paolo Dorigato, with whom Deuel has worked over the years, to run the new restaurant as its executive chef. “My mentor asking me to run his restaurant in Chicago was, well, pretty cool,” says Deuel. In 2013, Liz Tracy and Andrew Deuel were married and in July 2015, they had their first son, Charles. About a year after running Dolce, DOT Foods in Mt. Sterling reached out to Deuel, asking him about helping with Hagel 1891.“We had Charles and he was young. We came and checked out Jacksonville and knew right away it would be a better environment for us and our growing family. Liz also had an opportunity in Springfield [career wise],” explains Deuel. Deuel took the position as executive chef at Hagel 1891. Tracy started working in private practice at a law firm in Springfield as outside counsel and now is in-house legal counsel at DOT Foods. The growing family includes Charles (6), Avie (3 ½) and George (2). Tracy says, “We’ve been talking broadly about the idea [of opening a restaurant] for about two years now. We started looking for downtown real estates in November of 2020 … and we signed a contract in January of 2021.” Tracy explains how it was important for their family to find more hours when the family could be together and to try to get Deuel out of “service hours.” “The pandemic really opened our eyes as to how much time we were getting with the kids by having opposite schedules … everything really made Andrew and I rethink family time and the importance of family time. We thought of ways to make it work, so that’s where the retail first came about … the concept of modeling retail hours around the square,” explains Tracy. While it started with an idea of making products to put on the shelves to sell, as the two moved further into the idea, Tracy says of her husband, “He said no, I’m not ready to walk away from food service and I love the thrill of being in the kitchen and cooking for people and serving people right there in front of me.” The two started thinking about experiences they’d loved in Chicago and thought of Eataly, an inspiration says Tracy because, “You walk in there and you can shop, you can eat, you can drink, you can drink while you shop … so, you come in and you have a cool sort of beauty retail experience where you enjoy it here but then you also take some things home to enjoy at home and maybe buy a gift as well on your way out.” The Little Stove is just that, a foodie retail concept. Located at 72 E. Central Park in the northeast corner of the square in downtown Jacksonville, The Little Stove will fill the front of the property. Tracy describes how the interior will be set up. Walking in, a corner up front will be set up for kids. A bar and partial seating will next feature a counter with a display deli case where Tracy says, “You’ll see beautiful meats and cheeses and some premade sandwiches.” Next along the outer wall will be shelving with their retail products, including dry imported Italian goods as well as goods that Deuel puts together himself such as spices, pickles, sauces or cigars. Tracy outlines that the following section will be kitchen gadgets. She says, “These are all going to be endorsed by Andrew. They’re going to be his favorite things … his favorite peelers, his favorite garlic presses, little whisks, things like that.” Last on that will be kitchen décor, such as hand towels or candles, for example. Seating will continue along the bar and the kitchen equipment will be behind...