Blaine Wetzel Wins James Beard Award for Best Chef Northwest

Blaine Wetzel won his second James Beard award last night.
Last night at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards in Chicago, Blaine Wetzel, chef of the Willows Inn on Lummi Island, was named Best Chef Northwest. Impressively, this is actually 29-year-old Wetzel's second Beard award, having taken home honors last year as national rising star chef.
In a very personal acceptance speech, Wetzel, whose fiancé, Raquel Ruiz Diaz, was involved in a hit-and-run accident in her native Paraguay ear