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baking is fun?

11Jun08

i’ve been quite hesitant to post about my last cycle. intro to baking finished up last week and i found something out about myself. i like baking. if you would have asked me 3 weeks ago what i enjoyed more, baking or cooking, i would have laughed and said cooking, hands down. […]

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intro to garde manger

21May08

as i said before, garde manger is mainly just a fancy word for the cold kitchen, however that is not how it is literally translated. that said, intro to garde manger was a great class. we learned the basic components of salads, appetizers, and hors d’oeuvre.

overall it was a fun class with a […]

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bottling some beer

03May08

i have finally come around. it’s something i’ve wanted to do for awhile and being in a city where it’s hard to find anything but a local brew, i gave in to the itch to make my own beer. i can’t remember if i posted about the batch i started and don’t really […]

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american regional cuisine

26Apr08

another cycle in the bag. the last three weeks i have been in american regional. in this class we spend a day or two in the many regions of the u.s. we started in the mid-atlantic states, then through new england, the south, louisiana, texas and tex-mex, the central plains, california, hawaii, […]

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another cycle done

08Mar08

meat & seafood identification & fabrication. good times.
we started with seafood, filleting salmon, halibut, shucking oysters, and making calimari. then we moved on to poultry, breaking down everything from chicken, duck, squab, and other wild birds. after the birds we moved to the beef, pork, and lamb, fabricating cuts from the sides […]

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chef brian malarky

10Feb08

yesterday chef brian malarky came to wci to do a demo of his seafood sausage. this is the dish that won him the second round of top chef, season 3 on bravo. top chef is
a new reality competition series celebrating the culinary arts with a fascinating window into the competitive, pressurized environment of […]

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another cycle down

25Jan08

don’t worry, i’m still here.
things have been quite busy with this last class. culinary skills 2 has been a whirlwind of cooking methods, stocks, sauces, and all sorts of dicin’ fun. this week has been all sorts of crazy with written tests, knife tests, product identification tests, and food prep up the wazoo.
today […]

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