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February 2010 Organic Center Newsletter
Thursday, Feb 04, 2010


Key Discovery Strengthens Linkage Between Pesticide Use and Colony Collapse Disorder
Scientists around the world have been trying to identify the risk factors driving honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). There is near-universal agreement that the problem remains severe; many factors can trigger CCD, and of these, several appear to depend on a weakened...
Michael Moles
816-260-3166
Michael Moles
Email: dewitt72@gmail.com
Phone Number: 816-260-3166
Mike, born in PA, raised in Lakewood OH, started working in kitchens when he was 16. In his early 20’s he completed a formal three-year apprenticeship plus a degree in restaurant Management. After that he worked in several large hotels and ran a very successful white-tablecloth restaurant kitchen.
In 1986 he was recruited by a Cleveland industrialist to be the chef on his private yacht and has been in private service most of the time since, on yachts and estates, interspersed with stints in some exceptional restaurants from Alaska to Maine to the Middle East, where he opened several Tex-Mex restaurants, and four years in Bermuda working for a Dutch businessman on his 189’ schooner.
How did you get in to cooking? started at a summer camp kitchen when I was 16 and things progressed
Your Favorite Cook book: CIA's New Professional Chef, 7th edition
Favorite to eat: Seared Scallops with a Citrus Beurre Blanc
Dish you could eat everyday: grilled cheese sandwich-hearth-baked sourdough, smoked turkey breast and Cabot habenero cheddar
Strangest request: on rooftop terrace-
Favorite Saying: The impossible takes a little bit longer
Favorite Ingredient: olive oil
Your Mentor: 1st chef, Swiss-Gerard Bertschy
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Random Recipes
JUICE OF LIFE
Submitted by: JODY KROPF
The Juice of life
3 lager carrots
1 large tomato
1 large slice Pineapple
3 piece celery
1 large piece ginger
½ pepper red
1 bunch kale
1 bunch parsley
1 bunch cilantro
1 nice piece beet
1 bunch spinach
1 bunch Basil
1 apple
Garnish with Bee Pollen
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Chef Ben Diaz is a graduate of France’s prestigious Le Cordon Bleu. He is a coveted freelance chef and consultant who was inducted into the Cambridge “Who's Who of Culinary Professionals.” Chef Ben has competed against some of the world’s top chefs. In 2006, the American Culinary Federation recognized him in the Los Angeles chapter’s Chef of the Year competition. In 2008, Chef Ben began work on a culinary reference book... |