Alumni Feature: Cody Wideman, The Mill Stone | Chef Eli’s Tips: Beef Tenderloin Butchery | Open Kitchen @ Home and more, in our Weekly Update!
Alumni Feature: Matt Kendrick | Chef Eli’s Tips: Bacon | SCS Dinner News | Open Kitchen @ Home and more, in our Weekly Update!
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.
Eat well this Labour Day Weekend | Kitchen Tips from Chef Eli | Open Kitchen @ Home and more, in our weekly update!
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…”
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.
“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.”
In our weekly update: Alumni Feature: Tom Giannakopoulos, Class of 2017 | Rave Reviews for Open Kitchen @Home | Program Updates, and more.
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.
#BlackLivesMatter | Alumni Feature: Adam Brenner, Class of 2006 | Learn with Open Kitchen @Home Meal Kits | Program Updates, and more.
When The Waterlot closed in 2016, I began renting the kitchen and building my catering business. Within a year, I began selling prepared foods out of the kitchen, and had the grand opening of The Garden Stand in 2018 in downtown New Hamburg, where I continue to work alongside my customized catering business…