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Hey, like I said in my last post, Jasper’s Restaurant in Kansas City really is having a Slow Food Pork Demo and Dinner, which is proudly called from Snout to Tail (click on the link for the Google Calendar reminder.)   I’m pretty excited about it.  Scratch that, I really excited. Why?  Well, I kind of…

Hen House Holiday Celebration Hey everyone, next week, November 5th-7th Kansas City’s locally owned Hen House Markets are featuring their annual Hen House Holiday Celebration. Basically, Hen House is going to take over the Overland Park Convention Center and feature 3 days of food, fun, wine, food, activities, food and celebrities.  Lots of really cool…

Recently, I had did a live cooking demonstration live on uStream.tv.  I decided to do a Spanish feast and made spiced olives and paella using recipes I made on DaVincisBlogLog.com.  We had a good time and active viewerbase. Here are the recipes: Spiced Olives Paella And here is the video:

Over on Paper Palate, I am starting a new series where I will be going though the book The Professional Chef highlighting skills that they teach at the Culinary Institute of America.  I hope everyone goes over to the site and takes the course with me and we all keep making yummy food together!

Farm To Market Bread Company Panettone Chef Jasper Mirabile is pretty good at giving challenges. Fortunately, I’ve managed to avoid the worst of his culinary conundrums for some time (which is no doubt his way of admitting that Velvetta fudge was just as awful as it sounds.)  Still, if I had any shock when Chef…