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THE RETURN OF HARVEST AMERICA CUES BLOG

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Yes, it’s back! After a two-month respite and a chance to assess how Harvest Cues can be of service to those who choose to read the articles offered, my blog will return in August 2025. The look will be different and the content will be driven by a few different environmental factors: How to engage, excite, and retain a new generation of cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs; how restaurants can find their place in an ever-changing marketplace; why what we do as cooks is so important; and how to regai

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THE RETURN OF HARVEST AMERICA CUES BLOG

Culinary Cues

Yes, it’s back! After a two-month respite and a chance to assess how Harvest Cues can be of service to those who choose to read the articles offered, my blog will return in August 2025. The look will be different and the content will be driven by a few different environmental factors: How to engage, excite, and retain a new generation of cooks, chefs, and restaurateurs; how restaurants can find their place in an ever-changing marketplace; why what we do as cooks is so important; and how to regai

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TO COOKS, CHEFS, AND ALL WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF FOOD

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You are the salt of the earth! I started Harvest America Cues Blog in 2013 at the encouragement of Chef Curtiss Hemm. The blog was meant to parallel the start-up of Harvest America Ventures Consulting. At the age of 63 (most of those years as a cook, chef, and culinary educator) I felt that I had enough experience, enough stories to tell, and a litany of success and failure to offer something of value to clients and readers.

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TIRED OF THE NEGATIVITY

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Its the proverbial glass half full or half empty scenario. How you approach life is typically evident in everything you do from caring for your health, to relationships, to your work, and even your purpose. Do you seek sunshine or darkness? To you relish a smile or simply accept a frown? Do you have hope or are you filled with angst and a dim view of what lays ahead?

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CHEFS – TRUST THE PROCESS

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As in the case with many professions, there is a process, sometimes built around tradition and often, proven effective over time. This process is methodically built on results and, as such, is acknowledged by those professions as being effective. The process is used in professional sports, in the military, in law enforcement, public speaking, writing, painting, carpentry, and dozens of others.

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CHEFS – SIMPLE AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL

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For generations excellent meant complicated, intense, all-consuming, and sacrifice. Kitchens of great renown are staffed with dozens of talented young cooks, some even there as a stagiere working just to learn and build their resumes. Meticulously clean kitchens; pristine, starched chef whites; the very best equipment and ingredients from around the world.

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CHEF – WHAT’S YOUR LEGACY?

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I just finished watching the latest beautiful episodes of Chefs Table Legends. As always, they are remarkably well-done featuring stories about Jamie Oliver, Jose Andres, Alice Waters, and Thomas Keller. Although the food photography and storyline about each chefs prowess behind the range are wonderful, it was the way that each has made a difference that justifies them as legends in life.