This Week In Food

22 Dec

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CHIC Podcast #104: Christmas Breads (Audio)Oh what fun we had making Christmas breads at bread guild this month. We made pan d’oro, pannettone, christosomo and stollen. All these breads are quite rich and require attention and time. Join me as I describe how we came to make these breads of...

15 Dec

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CHIC Podcast #103: Welcome to our new instructorWe have two new instructors in the pastry department at CHIC. We want to welcome both Patte Borg and Bob Cano to the ranks. This week we talk with Chef Bob Cano. Bob is most recently from our sister school in Las Vegas,...

08 Dec

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CHIC Podcast #102: Preferments and SoursHowdy bread lovers. I got a note from a listener, Bill Graney. He wanted to know more about preferments, sours, flour quality and much more. I thought to myself, this is a whole podcast not a return e-mail. Thanks for the ideas Bill. You too...

01 Dec

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CHIC Podcast #101: The Tuna MeltSome sandwiches are so simple but yet so satisfying. One of these is the tuna melt. Perhaps it’s a midwestern thing but we love our tuna melts in Chicago. Recently, a number of the chefs here at school got together to make the ultimate...

22 Nov

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CHIC Podcast #100: Happy Thanksgiving!This Thanksgiving we are traveling to sunny California to spend the day with my sister. My parents are coming out to visit too. For the Beckmans, it’s a family reunion! It is truly a special Thanksgiving for us. I asked...

17 Nov

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CHIC Podcast #99: Coffee Talk with Chef Gail HuesmannChef Gail Huesmann is our resident coffee expert. You can often see her running between our campuses with a 48 oz mug of her finest coffee brew. She stopped by the podcast studio to talk about what got her interested in...