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Why is Authenticity So Important. and What is it, Anyway?
Well, this sounds familiar. I am a visual artist and there are whole seminars and essays devoted to this subject as it applies to art. There have been paintings hanging for years in museums attributed to famous artists, but...
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Help wanted with a tentative itinerary for Yountville/Napa + SF in late August
and tasting @ 10 AM Lunch – A picnic @ Pride Spring Mountain Vineyard tour and tasting @ 2 PM Joseph Phelps seminar (possibly) Dinner – Ad Hoc @ 6 PM or past 8 PM Tuesday, August 26 Hess Collection @ 10 AM Lunch – In-N-Out or ZuZu or...
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Old school table manners... what were you taught?
This is very important – I facilitate at international seminars, where part of the training is having the participants form cooking teams – this could be a subject in itself. I noticed that not only East Asians but...
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Service Woes?
A.B., On your #1, I completely agree. I had to give a seminar to the servers at our country club on this issue. It might play at Captain John’s Seafood Shack, but beyond that, not so well #2.) Yes, I like the servers to all...
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Susur?
-french marriage. Lotus was also a more intimate experience, both for atmosphere and service. The tasting menu at Susur has been, in my experience, interesting, somewhat seminar-like, but ultimately unsatisfying. As I’ve...
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Chains you're tired of making excuses for?
in the Pacific Northwest, but it had the advantage of being fairly affordable and there were two of them within a mile of our house. (One of them was about two blocks from my school, so some of us could occasionally go there on a...
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Bagging your own groceries -- what's up with that?
I have often joked that I would be happy to offer free grocery bagging seminars to supermarkets who will give me thirty minutes with their employees. I usually prefer to bag my own because the checker (or somtimes, the bagger,...
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Annoyed with the surprise price of a glass of wine!
and preservation methods, constantly go to tastings and seminars, obsessively keep up to date on new clones, regions, blends, etc. and permanently have their noses in a book or a glass are serious, then we’re just not going...
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Please don't take my plate away
well off providing remedial seminars and one-on-one lessons with employees of Fortune 500 companies. They consider it an investment in their people and cheap insurance when those people represent the company!
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catering client expectation too high!!
-flight magazines for the seminars on this), but everyone wants to waste a lot of time niggling over a few $. They do not know that that time is actually $, and has to come from someplace. As with caterers getting the respect,...
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Dining in New Orleans Post-K
Restaurant August 301 Tchoupitoulas St http://restaurantaugust.com/august.htm Now the fun begins! My wife had done a seminar with Chef John Besh at the New Orleans Wine & Food Experience some years back, and had been very impressed...
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How common are food allergies and aversions- really?
sometimes don’t cause a reaction at all. This came up in a hospital seminar I attended.
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Food prank -- pulled on you or by you
Each month, the local hospital had a continuing education for the physicans on staff. One of the doctors would set up the seminar and the menu for the meeting. The doctor ordered spaghetti and meatballs for 25 people. The topic of...
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Food Snob or Food Lover?
About 15 years ago I was at a “Careers in the Food Business” seminar (looking to advance from my lowly secretary job in a catering company) and one of the speakers said “Don't you just love biscotti??”...
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Disabled Chowhounds
Bouncing off your message...and amplifying my previous “clarification” posting.... I used to give seminars on jazz improvisation. And the best tool in my bag of tricks was to make students create an improvisation using...
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