I have actually retired from the restaurant industry and have been working in "senior dining" now for the past eight years. As a department, and as an industry, we are very concerned about food born illnesses. Yes, I am aware that the entire hospitality industry has become acutely aware of this problem, much more so or the last few years. In the senior housing/dining end of the industry we are even more so. If our clientele comes down with something and it is determined to be food born it is, I… Continue

Well, join a public radio station and they send you a premium..I have thousands of CDs (literally) so this time around I decided to pick up a copy of Bill Bruford's book, Heat. Just started it, 47 pages in, and had to put it down to avoid the Bourdain Effect..by which I mean you read and read and pretty soon you've read the whole damn book and you find that dinner shoulda happened four hours ago. I did that with Kitchen Confidential. I wasn't going to let that happen with Heat. As you… Continue