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Alumni, Blog, Chef in Residence
Alumni in the news: Miles Pundsack – Poe (Class of 2009)
August 23, 2019
Our Alumni are doing exciting things in Canada and around the world!
Alumnus Miles Pundsack-Poe’s passion for food began during secondary school programs that specialized in organic farming, sustainability and localized community. Originally from Guelph, Ontario…
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August 23, 2019
Alumni, Blog, Recipe
July Recipe of the Month: Chilled Cucumber Gazpacho
July 10, 2019
Enjoy this Chilled Cucumber Gazpacho with Crème Fraiche on a hot summer day!
Stratford Admin
July 10, 2019
Alumni, Blog, Recipe, School History
Alumni Feature: Summer JL Baird | Owner, The Hintonburg Public House , Ottawa | SCS Class of 1998
July 9, 2019
I always knew I wanted to own my own business. One of my early jobs was working in a small café in Stratford, where I grew up. I worked there before and after school throughout high school and fell in love with cooking and decided this was the direction I would go. After working in numerous restaurants in Stratford and attending Stratford Chefs School, I traveled to the west coast to work at the Sooke Harbour House where my passion for creating menus and thinking outside of the box flourished…
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July 9, 2019
Alumni, Blog, Recipe
Alumni Feature: Sean Collins | The Red Rabbit, Old Man & Son, Okazu | SCS Class of 2008
May 2, 2019
I remember cooking alongside my grandmother as a child and feeling very at home in the kitchen. She would cook soups from scratch and hand-make pierogies all afternoon. I apprenticed at The Old Prune with Chef Bryan Steele and over the past decade I have been the Head Chef at Pazzo Stratford, Mercer Hall and The Red Rabbit. In 2018 we opened Old Man & Son, a new place to eat breakfast in Stratford.
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May 2, 2019
Blog, Student Posts
Apprenticeship Bloopers and Tips from SCS Class of 2019
March 8, 2019
Well friends, our school year has come to a close.
As we’re all preparing for our next adventures, I want to offer a little support to our first-year friends going into their apprenticeships…
Stratford Admin
March 8, 2019
Blog, JHGWIR, Student Posts
Chefs Wear White: Stain Removal 101
February 26, 2019
Somewhere between mankind’s harnessing of fire and Escoffier, it was decided that people who work with food should wear white… Consequently, we culinary students spend a surprising amount of time discussing stain removal!
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February 26, 2019
Blog, Student Posts
‘Squimps*’: Exceptional Alternatives
February 15, 2019
It’s difficult to talk about your teachers without sounding like a colossal seat-smoocher, but I’m going to risk it. One of the things I really love about working with our chef instructors is the amount of effort all of them put into making each dinner exceptional for every guest. ..
Stratford Admin
February 15, 2019
Alumni, Blog, Guest Chefs
Alumni Feature: Eric Robertson, 2019 Canadian Guest Chef (SCS Class of 2011)
February 1, 2019
Originally from Brantford, Eric Robertson has always had an agrarian passion. After graduating from SCS in 2011, he spent time cooking in France and then in Belgium, where he met fellow chef Daniel Hadida, who had a similar culinary background and passions….
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February 1, 2019
Blog
Middleton Wines: A Taste of History
January 15, 2019
Our class had the extraordinary opportunity to try some very old wines from Bordeaux that Chef Ian Middleton generously shared from his father George’s collection. As interesting as the wine was in flavours and complexity, for me, the most fascinating part of the afternoon came with the stories and the history they illustrated…
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January 15, 2019
Alumni, Blog, Chef in Residence
Alumni Feature: Ryan Brown, 2019 International Chef in Residence (Class of 2006)
January 9, 2019
I was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec in a family that celebrated food on a daily basis. I was always fortunate enough to have one of my parents at home with me growing up, so I made impromptu lunches and dinners from scratch with Dad or baked cheesecakes or cupcakes with Mom. Cooking was always a job, but never entered my mind as a career opportunity until I discovered the Stratford Chefs School, where I graduated before my 20th birthday…
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January 9, 2019
Remembering Mark Webster
November 29, 2018
With the Escoffier at the Ritz dinner fast approaching, I wanted to draw your attention to something special: a set of silver serving trays we use in the dining room … but the fact that they’re beautiful and made of real silver are only tiny parts of what makes them so special…
Stratford Admin
November 29, 2018