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Calling all chefs/cooks in New York!
Looking for a way to give back this Thanksgiving? Broadway Community is looking for line cooks and carvers to help create their INCREDIBLE T-Day meal!
Time: 10am-4pm.
Trust me, it’s an amazing day filled with lots of love…and 6 different flavors of turkeys!! To take a peek at their entire menu, click here.
To volunteer your culinary skills, contact Chef Michael Ennes:
Chef Michael Ennes
Director of Foodservices, Culinary, Nutrition http://www.oakleyonorder.com/ and Vocational Education
Broadway Community Inc.
601 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10025
212/864-6100 ext. 123
chef.ennes@ymail.com
chefmichaelb@optonline.net
We are happy to announce the highly anticipated release of our 2010 application for the upcoming CulinaryCorps trip to Puerto Rico.
As we all know, food has the ability to transform lives and revitalize communities. Our upcoming CulinaryCorps trip is devoted to bringing this ethos to life. And in order to recruit the most highly qualified team http://www.oakleyonorder.com/ we can find, in a new model for the organization, this trip is FREE for participants. Each team member is solely responsible for their transportation to and from San Juan. We will also be asking all team members to assist with a group fundraising goal.
For details about the trip including our service project itinerary, please click here.
The application process is now open and will be conducted on a rolling admissions basis until November 23rd, 2009. All final team decisions will be made on November 25th.
If you have just one week next year to do cheap oakley something good, why not do something you love?
In good food and good service,
The CulinaryCorps Team
In an exciting development for the organization, CulinaryCorps will be expanding their trip footprint to Puerto Rico in 2010. With the help of four-time trip participant and San Juan native, Viviana Acosta-Padial, a trip will be launched from January 31 – February 7, 2010. For trip details, please click here.
The island nation of Puerto Rico has one of the most dynamic economies and cuisines in the Caribbean region. However, sustainable economic development remains a challenge for this United States Commonwealth. Currently, the average median household income is less than half of Mississippi, the poorest state in the USA, and a majority of Puerto Rican citizens live under the poverty line set by the cheap oakley American government. Puerto Rico receives some US federal aid but does not get equal coverage or qualify for most welfare programs. In 2007, the US halted its funding to clinics serving HIV/AIDS patients, a devastating blow for a country with over double the rate of AIDS than in America. However, Puerto Rico’s network of dynamic non-profits have helped reduce mortality, increase literacy, improve medical services, raise life expectancy and increase quality of life for all citizens including the domestically abused and those afflicted with long-term illness. CulinaryCorps is honored and privileged to help further the work of these admirable organizations.
Equally as important to the work that is keeping the country healthy is the cuisine that keeps the country happy. With roots in the cooking traditions and practices of Spain/Europe, the Amerindian Taínos (pre-Colombian indigenous inhabitants), and the African continent, the mingling of flavors and ingredients passed from generation to generation have resulted in an incredible food culture unique to the island. Puerto Ricans are fiercely proud of their cuisine but unfortunately, US influence and island industrialization have eroded the viability of agriculture, and Puerto Rico is now largely dependent on food imports. With this shift, practice and preservation of traditional http://www.oakleyonorder.com/ cooking techniques, products and recipes is quickly fading. Indeed, as these native foodways are exchanged for convenience foods, instances of high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease have increased among the young. Fortunately, Puerto Rico is beginning to recognize this trend and are taking first steps to quell the backslide.
CulinaryCorps is excited to be a small part of this forward progress, and upon our return home, is keen to be voice boxes for both the plight and the progress of this cheap oakley sunglasses culturally rich country.
Many thanks to David Aman, founder of DocNo Productions and visionary behind Colton Kitchen, for taking the time to film and edit CulinaryCorps in action.
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We are pleased to report on the continuing fallout from our April 2009 trip to Ray Ban outlet online New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast:
The post-trip spotlight shone on Chef Gary Podesto when his restaurant’s PR company wrote a piece on his CulinaryCorps experience in their weekly blog.
Ex-restaurateur, Mark Carter, shared his CulinaryCorps stories on his sister’s well-read website, Terry O’Dell.com, and received some wonderful comments about his efforts. Read Part 1 and Part 2 and get a glimpse inside the many vivid images that we collect during a single trip.
The CulinaryCorps designed Grow.Cook.Dine curriculum will be officially launched in the Fall with the help of The Ocean Springs Audubon Society and Slow Food Mississippi/Alabama.
Lastly, we wish CulinaryCorps alumni, Zachary Hedden, a safe journey to Antarctica in August. The consummate adventurer, Zachary has taken a one-year position as a cook in the research station at the bottom of the world. His work in the kitchen will help nourish the discoveries for a better, wiser, tomorrow. We wish him a safe journey and an incredible year of wonderment.
Calling all intrepid cooks! Heaven Restaurant in Kigali, Rwanda is looking for a head chef and front of house manager to help further its social entrepreneurship vision. This is a truly amazing opportunity for CulinaryCorps alumni looking for the next step or any other cook with a passion for travel and service.
For information on the job posting, please read below. For general information about the restaurant, please visit www.heavenrwanda.com.
Job Titles: Restaurant Manager and Head Chef
Number of openings: 2 -Positions are Full-Time with a minimum 1 year commitment
Salary: Volunteer positions with excellent travel, health and housing benefits; negotiable stipend based on education and experience
Heaven is more than a place, it’s an idea. Rwanda is one of the most beautiful countries on earth, and has resourceful, energetic people looking to move the country Ray Ban outlet online forward quickly. That’s why Heaven Restaurant & Bar is in Rwanda. Heaven, which features international cuisine, is helping Rwanda develop its most important resource: its people. Heaven goes out of its way to hire employees from particularly vulnerable backgrounds and provide them with salaries, and health care in line with international standards. Heaven is committed to being Rwanda’s finest restaurant and training facility for the industry. Heaven was made in Rwanda: Rwandan craftspeople painstakingly produced everything in the restaurant. From the chairs and tables to the artwork on the walls, Heaven is the first international quality venue in Rwanda produced by Rwandans.
Heaven is a newly constructed restaurant, now open for 1 year, in the beautiful neighborhood of Kiyovu, near the commercial center of Kigali, Rwanda. Heaven’s founder (an American expatriate living in Rwanda) is committed to training staff in customer service and restaurant management, providing a venue with high quality local products for consumption, and creating an environment that promotes social and professional Ray Ban outlet exchange. Heaven is creating jobs and providing vocational training for Rwandans, and is striving to improve service standards to support tourism.
We are looking for a restaurant manager and a head chef to help us train our service and kitchen/bar staff and run a smooth operation! We need two individuals who would be willing to move to Rwanda and be intimately involved in customer service training, kitchen/bar management, and general restaurant operations. We are looking for people who are passionate about international development, up for an adventure, and who believe in the Heaven project as much as we do!
Responsibilities:
Restaurant management: oversight of all operations including reception, bar, kitchen, service, stewarding, and security; procurement; storekeeping; training; marketing; financial management.
Head chef: oversight of all kitchen operations including training of all kitchen staff; menu creation and introduction of new items based on local http://www.raybandasoleit.com/ availability; tracking systems for all kitchen inputs; international-quality hygiene and safety maintenance.
Qualifications:
Certification and training in business management, culinary arts or hospitality management. Restaurant/bar/kitchen management experience preferred as is proficiency in French and English. Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel required.
If interested, please email CV and letter of interest to: alissaruxin@gmail.com.
Woman’s Day journalist, Bunny Wong, wrote a great piece on cool and creative ways to volunteer. CulinaryCorps made it as #2 on the list!
2. Cook Up a Storm
“We use culinary skills to do good,” says Culinary Corps founder Christine Carroll. For a recent project, 12 cooks flew to New Orleans for a week to whip up meals for Habitat for Humanity crews, among other undertakings. Although the organization generally requires professional kitchen experience or a culinary degree, “there’s a bit of wiggle room,” says Carroll; non-cooks who want to contribute could help plan an upcoming trip. “It’s really incredible to see cooks blossom as chef-citizens,” she says.
We were extremely fortunate to have some tremendously observant, witty and poignant chef-writers onboard the 2009 April trip. They have captured their own versions of the trip; a refreshing take on the days spent cooking, eating and connecting with the tremendous people we served.
It has been wonderful to read the diversity Ray Ban outlet that lies in the single common thread of participating on a CulinaryCorps trip; a happy reminder that we are all individuals – processing images, tastes, sounds and emotions completely differently yet somehow, the same.
Chocolate and Bacon
FancyPans
Crazy4Food
The Only Constant is Cooking
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