Andoni gets his stuff

Yesterday was hectic.  First I awoke to a dusting of snow.  No big deal, but the Boulder turnpike was a parking lot at 7:30am and the heavy spring snow became more intense as I got closer to Denver.  I took the toll road in to save time.
The school is being cleaned and given a fresh [...]

Mad food shopping spree in preparation for the IACP conference

OK, I just spent the last two days combing the Internet and various ethnic and regular grocery stores for all the stuff on my global food order list.  I am glad to announce that the worst is behind me.  Today I was looking for fresh nopales in a Mexican market and then I went to [...]

Now this is food porn…but can we please take it further

Just stumbled on this on yahoo.  There is no doubt that Carl’s Junior is going to sell more burgers.  It’s interesting that Padma is a spokesperson for the culinary world.  She could be one of those women that hang out with car racers waiting to be sprayed with champagne.  I might be ignorant, but does [...]

Obama never promised us a rose garden

Out with the roses and in with the barackolli.  According to this article at the BBC this is exactly what Mrs. Obama wants to do.  They are planning to plant a vegetable garden at the White House and set an example to the rest of the nation.  Way to go Obamas.  Maybe we can finally [...]

Crazy day

Little sleep the night before.  Busy thinking about everything I need to do for the next two weeks.
Today Douglas Baldwin came to the school and set up a mini sous vide lab on Hot Line.  We tasted a slew of different proteins many cooked between 12-24 hours.   It was enlightening and a good precursor to [...]

IACP public events registration

For those interested in learning about and signing up for the events open to the public click this

Fireside Garden Project

For over a year now my wife Lucy has been actively trying to get my son’s elementary school to start a garden project.  Today we broke ground.  In an hour and 45 minutes, we broke ground, took away all the turf and filled the plot with compost rich topsoil.
It was amazing to see how many [...]

IACP is opening up some Master Classes and Tours to the public

In order to increase sales in this dour economic climate the IACP has agreed to open up a bunch of their Culinary Day Trips and Master Classes to the public.  I do not have the complete list of the events open to the public but as soon as I have them I will make them [...]

The latest student presentation challenge

I put the students to a presentation challenge and I promised to put it up on the blog for my viewers to vote on.
The components roasted strip loin, pommes frites, asparagus and sauce Bordelaise.
Now it is up to you to chose:
As usual I allowed them to choose their respective plates from the plethora of plates [...]

Former student turned cheese guru and the combi zen master come for lunch

My former student and also former head cheese guy at the Truffle Cheese shop at Cherry Creek, Jim Arnold, came for lunch today.  He was able to talk to our students about the bloomy rind cheeses we presented at lunch.  The second guest for lunch was Connor Martin the local Rational Combi oven demonstrator.  We [...]