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Presidents Message March 2006
Hi Everyone;
I would like to share with all you members, associate members,
and friends of Epicurean the fact that we made in excess of 6000.00
at our ACF/ECB
Jr. Culinary fundraiser held in January. With these monies we
will be funding our scholarship programs and helping Jr. culinary
Teams from all over New England fund their culinary teams competing
in their first international hot food competition in Toronto
next week. The event also reminds us all about the continued
good works of the Boston Food Bank and they benefited immediately
with the massive amounts of extra food they rescued from the
event. Plus we all enjoyed seeing the very latest food stuffs
available to us! THANKS AGAIN
What an exciting few weeks. First, I was sworn in as President
on February 21, 2006 at the Harvard Club. Chef Nick Zakharoff
prepared a wonderful meal of: raclette station with proper accompaniments,
lobster wontons with soy sesame dipping sauce mouse smoked salmon
canape with caviar crème fraiche, mini ratatouille tart
with shrimp and goat cheese fondue, followed by dinner of lobster
consomme with trufled
gnocchi and fresh herbs, seared citrus and thyme brined all natural
chicken, foie gras butter served on gorgonzola polenta with candied
rhubarb and toasted hazelnuts. Baked almond tuille, marinated
tropical fruits and berries with marscapone cheese and marsala
sabayon.
I would like to thank Nick and his Staff for the truly wonderful
evening. Also, thank all of you for being there.
The Epicurean club needs to say a special Thanks to Rico DiFronzo,
CEC, AAC and Anthony Graffeo, CEC, AAC for chairing the ACF Epicurean
club of Boston Culinary Classic at Boston University on 3/5th.
The results are on the second page under member news. Another
special thanks to members Christopher Janian and Sean “Rory”
Gallagher for all the heavy lifting they did at this event; and
to Ed Micu who helped the entrants find their window on time
and to Jeff Barr who managed all the monies and equipment for
the event plus Despina Makredes and Carolyn Parmenter for the
wonderful breakfast and lunch, to Jim Palmariello for the wraps
and his help with the contestants and Jim DiMarzio for the water
and soda contributions. I need to mention our two photographers
Warren Frank, also webmaster, and Al McPhee already have the
hundreds of pictures taken on the website.
Please mark your calendars for the next meeting at Oakley County
Club on Tuesday March 21 with our member host Greg Dwyer.
Next weekend I will be traveling to the first international ACF
North East conference, I will be going as your representative
and handing out some of the hard earned monies we raised to tomorrow’s
future chefs.
Denise Graffeo CEC, AAC
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