Welcome to Chef Daniel's Powerful Nourishment
Here you will find a distillation of my years of kitchen work, burns, cuts, heat, cold, and all, spent in the quest for a style of cooking, distinctly mine. My culinary expression folds in the current scientific thought on nutrition with empirical knowledge of what people find to be delicious. The binding ingredient is a tiny voice of inspiration that tells me when something is “just right.”
I believe that at day’s end, a chef has done his job when the food he cooked up has bridged a connection with past, pleasant memories, through all sensory possibilities – just like the little chef Remy does in the Disney movie, Ratatouille!
Passion for food and cooking is a seed planted early in childhood. I
never met a truly passionate chef that just happened to fall into the
business by accident. For me, it happened after college, but the choice
was made long before. It’s curious how all my previous schooling brought
me to this career in the culinary arts.
...read more about Chef Daniel
Powerful Nourishment is
the name that I have given to my culinary style and philosophy. It
is the deliberate search and application of all food and ingredients
that increase the nourishment capacity of food bite for bite. And
because nobody will eat anything that doesn’t taste good, flavor and
wholesomeness are the prime standards against which all things are
measured before they can become my food. Read
on for a detailed description of Powerful Nourishment.
...read more
Cooking Classes are
offered on an exclusive basis to individual and groups. No two classes
are alike because each is designed to address each individual’s or
group’s objectives. Some cover delicious, healthy, home cooking menus
for entertainment, while others cover group, hands-on cooking, team-building
or public demonstrations. This section covers a variety of cooking
class formats that I have done. Nothing limits the style or format.
As such, this part of my site will always be a work-in-progress.
...read more
Original Menus
I selected these menus to illustrate a culinary range of styles and my favorite ethnic influences. You will mostly find regions of France, Asia, Mexico and Spain in a weaving of flavorful and fun representations.
...read more
Consulting Services cover a range of topics including kitchen design, menu and recipe development, culinary instruction development for schools and hotels/resorts, ingredient selection with locally-grown, natural and organic quality, staff recruitment, etc. ...read more
On Food
and Health is a compilation of essays covering
subjects like “Cooking for Kids,” “Cholesterol Lowering Foods,” carbohydrates,
proteins, fats, vitamins and more. This is a good resource for home-makers
and all looking to learn more about food and health in plain English.
...read
more in On Food and Health
My Blog: Diary of a Chef Follow the journey through the daily life of an Executive Chef. ...read more