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Regrets

By chefhenry » Published on January 28, 2012

Explanations, excuses, good intentions, and more.  But, in the end what can I say, it’s been far too long in between anything put up on this blog.  Sorry folks. I began this thing with only a vague idea of what I really wanted to do with it, and for quite some time it was a [...]

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The Psychology of Cooking, Professionally

By chefhenry » Published on July 31, 2010

  I have often wondered what it is that drives some of us to continue on in this business year after year, decade after decade. It is easy to understand why some might entertain the thought of entering the profession, especially these days with all of the media coverage of celebrity chefs, and celebrities pretending [...]

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Chicken is a Vegetable

By chefhenry » Published on June 28, 2010

Watch your Demographics,   “Where I come from, Chicken is a vegetable.” Is a phrase that one of my guests here uttered to me the other night as he came back for a third slice of Prime Rib, totaling close to two pounds of meat he had ended up having for supper, nothing else, no [...]

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Sourcing in Canada 2.0

By chefhenry » Published on May 31, 2010

As much as I have always wanted to keep my purchases within Canada, and my wish is to pass along any information I can gather in regards to this, I just have to pass along this information even though it is to do with an American company (read duty and exchange, international purchase). For months [...]

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Take a Moment, Relax

By chefhenry » Published on April 1, 2010

   While around here I certainly can’t say to stop and smell the roses, or even suggest a couple of nice deep breaths most of the time, one can at least stop and appreciate the wonders of something as simple and regularly occurring as a sunset. Just so happened this evening that I had been [...]

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The Care and Feeding of a Blog

By chefhenry » Published on March 4, 2010

Over the past year (and a bit) I have often lamented my inconsistency in posting, and apologized rather too frequently for my liking due to this. Although I cannot seem to figure out how to bring regular posting into my daily routine my food-centric nature has led me to these following thoughts:   I read, [...]

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Short Staffed???

By chefhenry » Published on February 5, 2010

One of the things that seems to be chronically a problem most everywhere I have worked is the issue of staffing. Over the years there has been only a very small number of venues that have had the stability of staff and volume to rarely experience an issue with being short staffed, or overstaffed. From [...]

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Winter @ Work

By chefhenry » Published on January 18, 2010

With all the other trials and tribulations involved in the day to day operation of a kitchen weather is one that we sometimes do not take into consideration. Up here it is a fairly constant factor in how things are accomplished. These photos were taken after work last night, the really ironic part is that [...]

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Sous Vide 3.0

By chefhenry » Published on January 14, 2010

As I sat mulling over what I had managed to accomplish culinarily over the past year, on my days off anyways, I was quite happy with the situation. While I realize that at the moment I am never satisfied with the number of new and different things I manage to create, in hindsight I somehow [...]

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Further Adventures in Sous Vide

By chefhenry » Published on January 3, 2010

With some time off over the Holidays I finally managed to clean up and sterilize my newest toys, I’ve gotta say, eBay comes through quite well, once in a while. The new pieces pictured are both from the auction site and I consider myself lucky that no one else was interested and I picked them [...]

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