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THE KING IS IN THE HOUSE

Culinary Cues

Looking back can provide us with context and content for making future decisions – lessons learned and all that, or it can also help us to relish what worked and hold on to that for inspiration. SOME TIME IN THE LATE 1960’S: Walking through the back entrance to the Statler Hilton Hotel was like stepping into a totally different world.

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WORK HARD AND BE KIND

Culinary Cues

Whenever I visited New York City with students, or with family, Dick helped arrange for us to meet well known chefs and restaurateurs, visit, tour and dine in incredible benchmark restaurants, tour flagship hotels, and in some cases find kitchen space for our student culinary teams to prepare for competitions.

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A COOK’S FIRST STEPS TO BEING GREAT

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Next week he would graduate from high school and James the cook at his diner invited him back for dinner and a chat. I never told you, but at the peak of my career I was the chef in a four-star hotel with a team of two dozen cooks. It was great, but my back didn’t agree, and I eventually had to step out of that role.

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN RESTAURANT

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Culinary School Bonanza – Becoming a Chef is Cool: Not too long ago – cooks learned their trade and aspired to become a chef through in-house apprenticeship and the school of hard knocks. PART TWO: The Era of the Chef: Ah, now things really changed. The once restaurateur-centric restaurant was about to become chef-centric.

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A DECEMBER KITCHEN

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I can feel the knot in that muscle move slowly from the top of my ankle to the back of my knee. By 7am I am walking through the back door of the kitchen. I polish off breakfast in record time, kick back another coffee, tie on an apron, and walk through the kitchen with clipboard in hand. I nod and give him a thumbs up.

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COOK TO CHEF AND BEYOND

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After a couple years she moved back here as the chef of her current operation. Daniel was different, after two years part-time as a dishwasher, his chef lined him up with an apprenticeship at a fancy hotel in West Virginia. He graduated and was immediately hired to work at another resort hotel in Colorado. Well, Jack.

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A Classically Trained Chef's Journey to Making Burgers

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Listen to "A Classically Trained Chef’s Journey to Making Burgers" on Spreaker. In this episode of Chef AF, I chat with Chef Paul Griffin , chief culinary officer at BurgerFi about his training, his experience of over twenty years, and his road to BurgerFi. We have a five-person team based on the 5 positions that they train.