Nutrients, Not Just Vitamins, Are Key to Anti-Aging We all believe that vitamins may help our health in some way. While some specific vitamins have been shown to provide benefit – namely, Vitamin D is the talk of the town – it is more important to get the full gamut of nutrients from whole foods. [...]

It’s almost that time of year again, the aroma of roasting Hatch Green Chile’s is in the air around every corner in New Mexico. When I was working in New Mexico, I learned about Hatch Green Chile’s. A green chile similar to the shape of an Anaheim, or Pablano pepper, but is about 10 times [...]

Since I wrote a blog on “Keeping Food Safe During An Emergency” I have gotten a good response, so I decided to take it to the next level. With help from my friends at Chefs de Cuisine of San Diego. Survival Shopping List and Menus Surviving a disaster requires a way to keep eating. Families [...]

These four day menus are to be used with my other post: “Survival Shopping List and Menus“ Survival Menus for the next disaster DAY 1 Breakfast: Cereal with Soy Milk Lunch: Tuna Casserole: 2 pouches Tuna, Penne pasta, 2 cans Cream of Mushroom soup, Dinner: Red Beans and Rice with Sausage, Red Beans, Rice, Chili [...]

The 2010 San Diego County Fair is over! What an event! This was the largest culinary event in the nation and I was involved in the 22 days of competitions and cooking demonstrations, including an ACF sanctioned competition and a military competition using Spam. I did cooking demonstrations on Sausages and one on Sea Scallops [...]

We survived another week at the San Diego County Fair, with the theme of “Taste the Fun”. It has been a real challenge to fill all the events that we the sdchefsdecuisine association have committed to, with people canceling or not showing up to events that they said they would do. So I judged a [...]

Well we survived the first week of the 2010 San Diego County Fair. We had a lot of fun putting on competitions and cooking demonstrations. Chefs de Cuisine Association serves up fun at The Fair’s “Tour of Tastes” Exhibit (SAN DIEGO June 18) – The Chefs de Cuisine Association of San Diego has partnered with [...]

Chefs de Cuisine Association of San Diego: “Iron in 10 Minutes” at the Media Party 6-4-2010 San Diego County Fair Everyone had a blast taking competitors from the crowd to compete in ten minutes with the chefs coaching. “Ironhood in 10 minutes” Congratulations to the Chefs de Cuisine Board of Directors for having the most [...]