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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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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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Inspiration & Creativity

By chefhenry » Published on November 23, 2009

Where does it come from? Where do you look for yours? The last couple of months I have been collecting up a good sized stack of “Cookbooks”, from chefs from all over the world almost. Between the actual physical books and the healthy handful of blogs that I read on a regular basis I have [...]

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Latest Adventures

By chefhenry » Published on November 15, 2009

Well, another set of days off have come and gone, and for some reason, while the clock or the calendar proves to me that this set was in fact a few hours longer than most, psychologically they seemed very short indeed. Perhaps it’s the fact that, as I posted over at my other site that [...]

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Sous Vide Success

By chefhenry » Published on October 14, 2009

  To anyone experienced in the technique it might not seem like all that much, it might even seem laughably simple, but my first foray into the world of cooking in a controlled temperature water bath can go into my history books as a success. Two perfectly cooked medium rare Striploin Steaks, cooked Sous Vide [...]

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What’s in a Name?

By chefhenry » Published on October 5, 2009

As I read back through the majority of my blogs, other than realizing that after the first couple of months the fact that my posting frequency has diminished I have also noticed that I may have not come up with the best name I could have for my little website here. While webrestaurateur.com is still [...]

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Hydrocolloids 101

By chefhenry » Published on September 24, 2009

Just the word itself does not, at first glance associate itself with fine dining, or the art/craft of cooking at all, at least in my mind. But such is the nature of cooking and the evolution, or progress of the discipline. Hydrocolloids is, in my mind anyways, just the fancy, proper term for a wide [...]

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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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