Posts Tagged "ACF"

Defining Who You Are in a Plate of Food

Posted by on Aug 13, 2010 in ACF, Food | 0 comments

This goes out to my fellow chefs, can you really define your style as a chef in a plate of food? I think you can but how do you go about it? In the last few days I have been going about the process of defining who I am through my style of cooking. This is a complex interaction of favorite techniques, ingredients and presentations. It is also influenced by spiritual and intellectual factors that vary from moment to moment, season to season and the WTF I just want to make it state of mind.   I have been asked many times to create my own personal “Le Guide Culinarie” and have...

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Chef John Reed Wins Prestigious Award

Posted by on Aug 8, 2010 in ACF, News, Uncategorized | 1 comment

Chef John Reed CEC, CCA wins the ACF Chef Professionalism Award for 2010 sponsored by Nestle Foodservice and Minors. John Reed Wins Chef Professionalism Share this:PrintEmailPin ItFacebookShareStumbleUponReddit

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Culinary Decompression

Posted by on Apr 28, 2010 in ACF | 0 comments

After spending several months trying out for the Culinary Olympic Team, things have setteled down and I can decompress somewhat. What that means it’s time to start refocusing on my own journey towards my CMC certification. This will include refining recipes, defining my style, countless practice sessions and challenging my self on a regular basis to produce the best food I can in a pressure situation. With that I am going to take a CEC certification test this summer. I am already certified but feel this will accomplish many things. 1.) It will go towards my re-certification 2.) It will...

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John Reed wins ACF Chef Professionalism Award 2010 for the Central Region

Posted by on Mar 31, 2010 in ACF | 0 comments

View the lastest press release about this prestigious award http://www.acfchefs.org/Content/NavigationMenu2/About/Media/Releases/2010/pr100329b.htm Share this:PrintEmailPin ItFacebookShareStumbleUponReddit

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John Reed, CEC, CCA, Advances in ACF Culinary Team USA Tryout

Posted by on Feb 23, 2010 in ACF | 0 comments

  ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., February 23, 2010– John Reed, CEC, CCA, Skokie, Ill., is one of 15 chefs who qualified to compete in the second of two culinary competitions to determine who will be selected to represent the United States on ACF Culinary Team USA at the Culinary World Cup in Luxembourg this November and the 2012 Internationale Kochkunst Ausstellung (IKA), commonly referred to as the “culinary Olympics,” in Erfurt, Germany. The first of two tryouts for ACF Culinary Team USA, the official representative team of the United States in major international culinary competition was held...

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