FRIED COFFEE

Restaurateurs seem to be a cautious and somewhat stodgy lot when it comes to NEW things. They learned long ago that customers are,  for the most part, unwilling to speculate with their hard-earned dollars on menu items they aren’t familiar with. Accordingly, many have been slow to explore and espouse the opportunities available in the [...]

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No attitude issues No alcohol abuse No drug abuse Just a committed,  professional, culinary manager for summer seasonal resorts, ranches, and restaurants. TemporaryChef is here.

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Seasonal food service operators face some difficult problems with staffing during their abbreviated calendar. I got a call yesterday from a restaurateur who was experiencing problems with erratic behavior by the Chef they had hired for the summer season. I’ve also spoken with the owners of seasonal ranches and resorts,  all facing similar problems in [...]

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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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Food service and food retailers are engaged in a battle for your health. I recently received a gift box of some of my favorite noshes, a fantastic collection of bar chocolates and a big bag of pistachios.  The chocolates now decorate my waistline, but the pistachios……………………..they sit on my counter, untouched.   I adore pistachios but [...]

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Art Culinaire began showcasing the visual art of talented Chefs more than 20 years ago.  There have been other magazines,  some websites,  numerous newspapers and journals, prior to, and after that. In the opening days of 2009  Deep Plate quietly quietly launched what is, in my mind’s eye, the best media presentation of the styles [...]

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Susan Holaday,  Editor & Publisher of Foodservice East,  the B2B Publication of the $ 80 Billion Northeast Foodservice Industry, interviewed TemporaryChef.com founder Paul W. Green CDC and published the following article in the Spring, 2009 issue. Chef Paul Green meets a marketplace need with a website that places “temporary chefs” TUFTONBORO, NH – A lifelong [...]

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BENJI LANYADO takes us to a small village in Kent, near London, in a wonderfully written piece in the NYT Travel section.  I tasted the oysters and chased them with Guinness then got hungry all over again as I read.  The article is in black ink on white newsprint, but I promise you food and [...]

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In my previous post “ Howard Beale Lives” I linked to a clip of Peter Finch, as news anchor Beale, in Network that became an iconic film moment.  That movie was produced in 1976 but the message and topic of the clip is, perhaps, more timely today  than it was 33 years ago. I suggest [...]

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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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