Category Archives: Ala carte

Study & Action

By chefhenry » Published on October 30, 2009

Study without action is futile, and action without study is fatal. I can’t remember where I read that little saying but it just came to mind again this evening as I was “studying” away here in my room at camp. This particular adage, while I fully understand its’ merits is one that I find totally [...]

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Sourcing in Canada

By chefhenry » Published on September 22, 2009

While the Internet and the World Wide Web may be an indispensable tool for information, ideas and inspiration lately it seems it is also a constant source of frustration to me. Time and time again as I attempt to locate suppliers of that esoteric ingredient or extremely specialized tool I find that while a website [...]

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So much food, so little time

By chefhenry » Published on September 17, 2009

As another weekend at home draws to a close I sit back and think about everything that I wanted to accomplish on this set of days off. As usual I didn’t get half of what I wanted to done, but what I did manage was very encouraging in so many ways, lots of cooking and [...]

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Old School, New School

By chefhenry » Published on September 3, 2009

  Over the last few months, as I have begun to share my thoughts and some ideas here I have at the same time started to seriously follow fellow chefs and their blogs. In the beginning there were quite a number of blogs that I would visit regularly but as time went on the numbers [...]

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Blessing or Curse?

By chefhenry » Published on August 31, 2009

  D**m you World Wide Web, d**m you Internet, d**m you too, all you excellent chefs who spend some of your precious free time blogging and sharing knowledge and information. If it was not for you and the other items on my list of things to curse right now I could have remained complacent in [...]

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Changes, & Habits

By chefhenry » Published on August 20, 2009

  Why is it that old habits are so hard to break, and new habits are so hard to form. Is it just simply human nature, or is it the nature of habits? The Doobie Brothers did an album decades ago titled “What were once vices are now habits”, and I guess my old habit [...]

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Update

By chefhenry » Published on August 2, 2009

  Well, hello there, it’s me and I’m still alive and kicking. Thirty three days down and eight to go. Just thought that I would post a little note saying that although I would love to be sharing more with everyone and get on with the business of creating a decent site, work has got [...]

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The Wall

By chefhenry » Published on July 24, 2009

  Fairly regularly in the world of endurance sports you hear the term “hitting the wall”, in performance activities you get the term “in the zone”, and in the culinary field you have the term “in the weeds”. Well, I think I have finally hit the wall here, yesterday should have been the end of [...]

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Parting Ways, Part Two

By chefhenry » Published on July 20, 2009

  If I didn’t know better I would have to think that one of the co-workers read my last post on this subject on Sunday, immediately after I wrote it. As I walked in to work Monday morning the news of the day was that said co-worker was no more, he had just walked out [...]

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Lemons

By chefhenry » Published on July 18, 2009

  They say that when life throws you lemons, make lemonade. Well over the last couple of years I have been trying everything I can to remain positive at all times, not working all that well, most of the time yes, but I’m only human. So they say to make lemonade from those lemons, I [...]

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