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Seasonal resorts and food service operations face culinary staffing issues that can be tough to address due to the short employment span. Personnel retention,   year to year continuity,   and competence deficiencies are three of the biggest issues. TemporaryChef.com offers a solution. 1)  Reliable full season commitment. 2)  Mature career Chefs experienced in purchasing [...]

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“Because I believe that homemade bread offers benefits on many levels, and that it is neither demanding nor difficult to make—that it doesn’t have to disrupt the rhythm of your life but can become part of it—I begin without ceremony.“ The lead paragraph above sets the philosophy of Jack Black as he begins a four [...]

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This is worthy of your time.  Elaine Corn writes/videos about a 2 mile stretch of road in Sacramento with an appetite provoking array of ethnic eateries.

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There’s only one reason for winter and it’s not the pursuit of a perfectly crafted snow angel or an injury waiting to happen while strapped onto moving things that speed down nastily sloped and narrow passages through the woods.  It doesn’t require a motor or demand hours camped on ice with a string dangling through [...]

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Dina Berta caught me in the office a few weeks ago and found the concept of per diem Chef services interesting enough to write an article about us in Nation’s Restaurant News. The benefits of temporary Chef services are apparent to large food service operations like Aramark, Sodexo, or Compass.  The costs of hiring and [...]

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It is my belief that the majority of people in the world wish for nothing more than a fair shot at personal growth and a modicum of success.  No matter what geographical position we inhabit,  or lifestyle we pursue,   we all accept the presence of a higher power. It is my prayer that we [...]

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“Molecular farming in plants will become a preeminent method for the production of pharmaceutical molecules in the next 10 years.” – Fischer et. al. Transgenic Research (2000) It’s seen on ponds and lakes the world over and generally taken as a common eyesore and a nuisance for swimmers.  As a child we heard all kinds [...]

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I have to admit that I really like the ritual of finding a tree and decorating it for Christmas.  On the other hand, I have  had misgivings since childhood about using a  live tree and then discarding it. There weren’t many options, however.  The early faux trees were garish aluminum things, or one might consider [...]

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Tahoe Mountain Club  put one of our chefs to the test.  They had a need for their top end restaurant, The Wild Goose, and had stumbled across our site when they ran a Google search looking for someone to solve their temporary staffing needs. A Certified Executive Chef was selected to head the kitchen,  write a [...]

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