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Out of the kitchen for two weeks

I’m away from home on a deployment to Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico. It’s been a break from cooking and unfortunately, a break from good […]

Chef Pro III: Final Exam!!!

It’s finally over! The written exam was not too bad–lots of writing and describing the techniques for several types of dishes. I knew that would go […]

Shift Gears Soon

I am now studying for the final exam, a written test and practical exam. I’ll write about it next week. In the meantime I’m working on […]

Chef Pro III: Week 11: Fusion Cooking

The week before this class we all drew slips of paper which contained our countries or regions for this class. I drew Ireland, Greece, Asia, California, […]

Chef Pro III: Week 9: Escoffier

My cooking partner, Ray OK, think of an assignment so complicated you will surely get a headache–that is the Escoffier class. Pick up the book, Le […]