Pictured above are two younger men, at a time that seems like a forever ago. Myself and my old friend and mentor Chris Boos, whom I’ve recently gotten reaquainted with He posted some pics on Facebook that I had to get up here. These were taken at the 131st Salon of Culinary Arts in New York in 1999. Chris was the captain the culinary team at Mohonk Mountain House, where we worked. Everyone on the team won first prize for thier work, myself included. Pictured below is my gold-medal winning sugar showpiece, which I called The Winemaker. I remember as we were sliding the glass dome over it, the arm broke off and sugar shattered everywhere. Chris, fortunately, had brought his entire sugar shop with him. We had the piece fixed and back on the table in no time. I learned a powerful lesson that day about preparedness, and also about never giving up. Just one of the numerous lessons I learned working with this talented Chef. He was my first mentor in the pastry biz, and I owe a large part of my success to him. 
Back in the Day.
10 February 2009 | chef, pastries, pictures | 2 Responses
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Wow! Don’t even recognize you man! I remember my first culinary comp. I was in charge of the entrée and with ten minuss left I burnt the shit out of my hand, our sauce for the dessert reduced to far and the salad girls couldn’t get the frisee to stand on our crab salad. It was a disaster for about three minutes. We bucked up though and made it happen. I think we ended up getting third out of 120 teams…
@ perezident- Yeah, I hardly recognize myself. I was much more ambitious back then. I never slept. I’m old now.