Watching chefs perform and learn
I’m up in Amherst all this week attending the 17th annual Culinary Conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. More than 120 chefs, almost all from colleges and universities, gather to learn from restaurant chefs and from each other new ideas for bringing more flavor and value to their customers.
The military as business
I had an interesting and engaging interview Monday morning with George Miller, retired U.S. Air Force veteran, current chief of food and beverage operations for the Air Force, and current IFMA Silver Plate winner in the Specialty Foodservice category. It was the kind of interview where you just turn on the tape recorder and sit back and listen.
Greetings from Santiago, Chile. I'm traveling with a group of food writers and editors—and one chef—on a culinary tour sponsored by the Chilean Fresh Fruit Association. I'll be sharing photos, stories and, I hope, some videos upon my return. As I write this, I've just returned from an interesting afternoon tour of Santiago, which began with lunch at Donde Augusto in Santiago's famed Mercado Central.