Apparently this is a very busy time out in your neck of the woods, as the days of October wind down you find yourself finishing Halloween costumes for your kids, or making a mental note that you must stop at the store to get candy for the tick or treaters. Here in Italy the days are just getting colder with no sign of jack o lanterns out on the front step, to say the least the lack of our North American traditional Halloween is being noticed, I am missing seeing my nieces and nephew in there costumes.
Yet for some the shorter, colder days aren’t just leading toward Halloween, but rather we have two very busy Chefs in the Okanagan preparing for Competition… While juggling the day to day tasks of running there kitchens and teams, Chef Rod Butters of RauDZ Regional Table and Chef Mark Filatow of Waterfront Wines, are getting ready to take stage at the Gold Medal Plates Competition November 5th in Vancouver. Take a few minutes out of the website the finals for the Gold Medal Plates Competition will be held in Kelowna in February
Good Luck Chefs, you will make the Okanagan proud!
Back to this side of the world… Things have been good this week at Petraia, with an Advance Culinary week going on. Susan is putting on cooking classes everyday covering everything from new equipment for your household kitchen that we use here (ThermoMix , Induction Burners etc), to techniques to advance their cooking at home like Sous Vide, Bread Baking, pasta work and so on. We have two couples taking in the whole week of meals and classes. They came in not knowing one another, one couple from the United States and one from here in Italy. When you watch them in class together they are now friends laughing together over who has the nicest starter, and rather then dining at two tables they always sit together when they meals. Friendships formed over food… Priceless!
Here is a picture of them after I finished there Cracker Demo today!! Great people!
Ciao!
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