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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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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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Making slow time count

By chefhenry » Published on May 22, 2009

  Time to lean? Time to clean! I have no idea how many times I have heard that phrase shouted across a kitchen at some less than energetic employee, but it is the truth and these days from what I can see, have heard and what I read just about everywhere, there is more and [...]

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