A few weeks back, I wrote a short post about how I was beginning my search for a restaurant job. Since that post, I’ve been able to come up with both a resume and a cover letter template that I feel pretty good about and I’ve actually managed to send off those materials to a [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
Student Spotlight
I have just a quick update tonight for you all. The Cambridge School of Culinary Arts Fall 2009 Alumni Newsletter was just released today and I am featured in the “Student Spotlight”. Click here to view the article. My feature is on page 11. I was also interviewed for the “Twitter Tactics” article on the [...]
Week 22, Day 2: Provincial French 6
Our tour of France continues this week with a stop-over in Provence, located in the Southeastern-most part of the country. The region’s cuisine is directly influenced by its close proximity to both Italy and the Mediterranean Sea and features heavy usage of tomatoes, olives and olive oil, garlic and seafood. Ratatouille: Ratatouille is a dish consisting [...]
TV Diner – Video is online!
As mentioned in my last post, the ‘Student Chef Showdown’ episode of TV Diner, featuring an appearance by yours truly, aired this morning and I’m pleased to say that I did not come across as a babbling buffoon. Here’s the clip from the TV Diner website…fast forward to the 3:40 mark to see my segment. [...]
TV Diner
Recently, I was offered a chance to compete in a ‘student chef showdown’, an opportunity that the budding-chef in me just couldn’t turn down. To give you all some background, there is a television show that airs here in Boston on NECN (New England Cable News) called TV Diner. TV Diner is a great program that [...]
Week 22, Day 1: Haute Cuisine 3
Let’s just get right to this week’s food, shall we? Petite Pojarski (Miniature Faux Cutlets): Ground chicken (plus some additional flavorings and breadcumbs) that have been shaped into little miniature cutlets and balls, then fried. Just like McNuggets, only better. Potage Bagration (Cream of Veal with Macaroni and Cheese): I was totally not into the [...]
Week 21, Day 2: Provincial French 5
We’re still on our culinary tour of the Southwest region of France, a region known for some of the things that I mentioned last week (foie gras, truffles, mushrooms, Bordeaux wine) plus many of the dishes that we prepared in today’s class. Brandade de Morue (Salt Cod Puree): This is salt cod that’s been pureed [...]
Week 21, Day 1: Haute Cuisine 2
The format for today’s class deviated a bit from our normal routine. We didn’t have too much new material to cover during lecture so we spent some time reviewing some things that we’ve learned over the last few weeks. Normally, right before we enter the kitchen after our daily lecture, Chef J assigns recipes out to each of us, [...]
H Mart and Korean Night
A few weeks ago, the big news in town was the grand opening of the H Mart in Burlington, MA. H Mart is a New Jersey-based Korean grocery chain with more than 40 locations nationwide. I can only imagine that this one, sprawled out over some 50,000 sq ft has to be one of the [...]
Week 20, Day 2: Provincial French 4
Today we talked about the southwestern part of France, focusing on the Bordeaux region. The region has become very famous for its wines, in part because it has been blessed with great geography (the confluence of two rivers forming an estuary and proximity to both the ocean and a dense forest). The Bordeaux region is [...]
