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Recipe | Spring Vegetable Risotto
April 16, 2025
It’s the perfect time of year to try making Spring Vegetable Risotto! Check out the full recipe now. Buon Appetito!
Stratford Admin
April 16, 2025
Alumni, Blog, Open Kitchen, Recipe
Weekly Update | September 25-October 1, 2020
September 25, 2020
Alumni Feature: Cody Wideman, The Mill Stone | Chef Eli’s Tips: Beef Tenderloin Butchery | Open Kitchen @ Home and more, in our Weekly Update!
Stratford Admin
September 25, 2020
Alumni, Blog
Alumni Feature | Cody Wideman, The Mill Stone (Class of 2019)
September 25, 2020
I grew up in rural Ontario, surrounded by farms and beautiful produce. My mom was a firm believer in heading to the St. Jacobs Farmers’ Market every weekend to pick up the freshest produce possible. She insisted on eating local seasonal ingredients, and now I like to apply the same concept when designing menu items.
Stratford Admin
September 25, 2020
Alumni, Blog, Open Kitchen, Recipe
Weekly Update | September 18-24, 2020
September 17, 2020
Alumni Feature: Matt Kendrick | Chef Eli’s Tips: Bacon | SCS Dinner News | Open Kitchen @ Home and more, in our Weekly Update!
Stratford Admin
September 17, 2020
Alumni, Blog, Open Kitchen, Recipe
Chef Eli’s Kitchen Tips | Ricotta
September 10, 2020
In this week’s Quick Kitchen Tips video, Chef Instructor Eli Silverthorne demonstrates in under 5 minutes how easy it is to make homemade Ricotta Cheese.
Stratford Admin
September 10, 2020
Alumni, Blog, Open Kitchen, Recipe
Weekly Update | September 4-10, 2020
September 4, 2020
Eat well this Labour Day Weekend | Kitchen Tips from Chef Eli | Open Kitchen @ Home and more, in our weekly update!
Stratford Admin
September 4, 2020
Alumni, Blog, Recipe
Alumni Feature | Kelly Ballantyne, Class of 2000
July 22, 2020
The arc of her restaurant’s growth has been based on a theory of simplicity that she studied at the school. “I learned some amazing things from Neil and Bryan [veteran SCS instructors and former Rundles and The Old Prune chefs Baxter and Steele, respectively], and I always start with those fundamentals and building blocks…”
Stratford Admin
July 22, 2020
Alumni, Blog
Alumni Feature | Randi Rudner & Mike Booth
July 17, 2020
Both Alumni and SCS Faculty, Randi and Mike are also the Chef Team creating delicious and gigantic from scratch submarine sandwiches this summer at Somewhere A Restaurant’s innovative new pop up sub shoppe in downtown Stratford, where they make just about everything themselves.
Stratford Admin
July 17, 2020
Alumni, Blog
Alumni Feature | Erin Negus, Class of 2014
July 10, 2020
“I approach and see my work as art and not just food. I want guests to really like it, but I also make food that I really like and that conveys a message that I want to deliver.”
Stratford Admin
July 10, 2020
Alumni, Blog
Weekly Update | July 3-9, 2020
July 3, 2020
In our weekly update: Alumni Feature: Tom Giannakopoulos, Class of 2017 | Rave Reviews for Open Kitchen @Home | Program Updates, and more.
Stratford Admin
July 3, 2020
Alumni, Blog
Alumni Feature | Tom Giannakopoulos, Class of 2017
July 3, 2020
After his first year at the Stratford Chefs School, Tom Giannakopoulos (Class of 2017) said “I now know what I don’t know.”
Tom had cooking experience gained through his family’s restaurants in Stratford, the city in which he grew up. “From the time I was 13 years old, I’ve been working in restaurants,” Giannakopoulos says, adding that attending the School was a natural progression from what he’d already been doing.
Stratford Admin
July 3, 2020
Alumni, Blog
Weekly Update | June 26-July 2, 2020
June 26, 2020
#BlackLivesMatter | Alumni Feature: Adam Brenner, Class of 2006 | Learn with Open Kitchen @Home Meal Kits | Program Updates, and more.
Stratford Admin
June 26, 2020