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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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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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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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Parting Ways

By chefhenry » Published on July 12, 2009

  Now I have left a few jobs in my time, some on good terms, some not so good. But the one thing I have always done, is do my best until the job was over. On occasion I can recall going back to my former place of employment to help out my successor when [...]

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