I responded to a search for a chef to represent the US Potato board in Montevideo Uruguay on May 6th. I’m to come up with a PowerPoint presentation and to do a demo in front of a group of potato growers.
I’ve been to Brazil a couple of times and Argentina, but never Uruguay. I’m always [...]
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I have been playing around with Adobe Lightroom 2. A current student George Jardine was nice enough to give me a copy and some high speed training on it.
George, thanks. It is a great tool and now that I know how to shoot in RAW simultaneously with Jpeg, I can have even more control over [...]
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I watched the finale of Top Chef last night and was quite happy to see Hosea Rosenberg win the title. Hosea has been a competitor locally for quite some time as an Iron Chef and has always won. He has always remained humble and true to his personality regardless of his success.
He was one of [...]
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Ian Kleinman of O’s restaurant at the Westin in Westminster is going to be teaching a molecular gastronomy primer here at Cook Street on the evening of April 1st (no fooling).
I am currently working with him on a curriculum to enlighten all that are interested in some of the techniques being used out there.
If you [...]
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This coming Wednesday Peggy Markel is coming to our school for lunch and to make a presentation on Tuscany. I met Peggy about ten years ago when I first started teaching at CSR and accompanying students to France as part of their education. At that time she just ran trips to Tuscany and she came [...]
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I’ve taken my first pictures for the March Deep Plate blog entry. Let me know which picture you like best below.
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Very exciting day. I got to meet with the executive chef and the regional director of Rational . We had a great discussion about how we might be able to create a demo environment for Rational Combi ovens here at the school.
I already love Combi ovens. There is no doubt that this is the future [...]
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This is why I love the internet.
About two weeks ago I received a blog feed from Khymos and in this blog post it presented a man who has researched and experimented extensively with the technique of Sous Vide cooking. He has written a handbook on Sous Vide .
So I look over the handbook (great handbook [...]
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The event went off without a major hitch. We had a full house and the weather cooperated. Chef Dale set up the dining room and it looked like this.
The students performed admirably in both the service and cooking portion of the event. I believe they enjoyed themselves and were proud of what they accomplished.
The night [...]
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