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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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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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Second Rate?

By chefhenry » Published on July 4, 2009

  As I spend more time writing articles for this blog I also spend more and more time researching and reading other blogs, articles, magazines, and books, all to do with food, cooking and anything even remotely related to the industry. The more time I spend on these assorted sources of information the more I [...]

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Never Trust a Skinny Chef

By chefhenry » Published on July 2, 2009

  There might be some truth in the old saying to “Never Trust a Skinny Chef”, at least from a patrons point of view. If the head of the kitchen is pleasantly plump at the very least you would know that he is probably eating his own cooking, or at least the food that is [...]

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The New Toys

By chefhenry » Published on June 26, 2009
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The Toys of the Trade

By chefhenry » Published on June 22, 2009

  Give me a knife, and some room to work, a source of heat or two, and some food and I’ll cook, something anyways. Depending on the venue and the menu the actual tools vary considerably but this post is about the toys. The little, and not so little extras that make the job easier, [...]

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The Many Facets of Food

By chefhenry » Published on June 18, 2009

  What does food mean to you? Is it simply the meals in the course of the day that keep you from being hungry? Is food just a necessity that keeps you energized and healthy, able to do the things that you must, and want, and can? Is it a luxury, a given, or not [...]

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“Acting”

By chefhenry » Published on June 16, 2009

  This past weekend, for the forth or fifth time in my tenure here it just so happened that my Chef had to leave for the day to attend meetings in town while the Sous Chef was on his days off. Not a big deal, I have been Chef, Kitchen Manager, even Owner in past [...]

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Lazy Day Post

By chefhenry » Published on June 12, 2009

Lousy time to have run out of backup articles to tweak and finish editing on a day when I’m just not up to it.  So for your viewing enjoyment, a couple of shots out of my old albums.  Hope you are having a great day.

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Websites, Blogs, and Cooking

By chefhenry » Published on June 10, 2009

  I’ve said it before and I am now saying it again. When I started this website and blog stuff a few months ago I had no illusions that I was doing something new and different. In fact I knew for a fact that there were going to be plenty of sites out there along [...]

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