April Food News

I receive emails and articles daily about the food industry. Once a month I will be sending your way Food News if you get my Chef’s Tips or RSS feed, this blog can just simply, automatically arrive in your ‘Inbox’. And you can feel free to share it online, cause that’s what I’m all about! Sharing … Read more

The Me Too Movement

I was reading an email sent to me by Eater by Whitney Filloon today about The Me Too Movement in the Restaurant Industry. And it occurred to me that women not being taken seriously and therefore becoming objects instead of breathing, thinking, feeling human beings brings me back to John Lennon who wrote “Woman is the Nigger of … Read more

Refugees

We are feeding our families. We are feeding our friends. But our souls are crying out, for the confusion that surrounds us. Can I get an AMEN? AMEN! CHEF! None of us know what to make of today’s world. But I would like to talk about Refugees since that is our hot topic of the … Read more

The endangered species list

We’ve got a NEW member added to the endangered species list. It makes me wonder because I know climate change is part of the problem. But after doing much research, I also found out there’s more to it, so I want to share what I found out, with you right now. According to the New York … Read more

SD not represented on The James Beard Awards Committee

The Nominations for The James Beard Awards are in. And I have to say about San Diego that I am completely disappointed. San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles all filled categories like Outstanding Restaurant, Outstanding Chef, Best New Restaurant, Outstanding Pastry Chef, and so on. We had ONE RESTAURANT in the entire city of San Diego nominated. For … Read more

Your Metabolism & Immune System Changes

I was at a supermarket yesterday and one of our expert cheese stockers told me “Your metabolism & immune system changes every 7 years”. He chimed in after the expert behind the cheese counter confidentially told me that “your taste buds change every 3 months”. Does being an expert in cheese make you an expert in Metabolism, … Read more