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Restaurant & Equipment Auction

Restaurant & Equipment Auction

Joe’s Cafe, Manhattan Lounge and a Mexican Cafe: Restuarant and kitchen equipment industry auction from Auction Solutions. Auction bidding begins: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 at 11:00 AMWhere: 8505 Crown Point, Omaha, NE 68134 View auction details to see pictures of items up for auction and …read more

Los Angeles Restaurant Auction June 27th

Los Angeles Restaurant Auction June 27th

L.A.’s Best Restaurant and Bakery Equipment will have a public auction on June 27th. The auction will have bakery equipment, restaurant equipment, pizzeria equipment and refrigeration equipment. If you can’t make this one and you are in the L.A. or SoCal area, they have auctions once …read more

Dessert Professional – Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America – Tweet Live

Dessert Professional – Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America – Tweet Live

The winner of The Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America that was announced by Dessert Professional, will be decided on July 7th at ICE in New York. For those who can’t make it to the event, watch it ‘live’ on Dessert Professional, or get updates with the live tweets.

For a complete list of the nominees including where they work/hail from visit LaVidaCocoa.

Visit Dessert Professional for the results live.

Visit TweeBus for the results also and look it up via twitter.

2010 Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America
Search Term: #toptenpcia, http://twb.cc/s/1192
Description: Dessert Professional’s 17th Annual celebration of the top pastry chefs in America is being held Monday, June 7th.

In South Africa and Looking for Equipment Auctions?

In South Africa and Looking for Equipment Auctions?

Western Cape Auctioneers is based in South Africa. While they do farm auctions and furniture auctions, they also do food service equipment auctions for used equipment needed for all sorts of businesses, restaurants, catering companies or bakeries. http://www.westerncapeauctioneers.co.za/index.php

Feuilles de brick vs. Pâte filo

Feuilles de brick vs. Pâte filo

For those of you who have never used feuilles de brick or phyllo dough before, I found Marmiton.org’s comparison does a great job of explaining it. http://www.marmiton.org/Magazine/Tendances-Gourmandes_brick-filo_1.aspx The whole site is in French, and if you cannot read French, then use Google’s translate bar, it’ll give …read more

Long Grove Chocolate Fest

Long Grove Chocolate Fest

It’s not too late: Long Grove Chocolate Fest, April 30, May 1 and 2.

http://www.longgroveonline.com/chocolate.html

Event Poster of Events.

Logan Square Kitchen – Pastry Market

Logan Square Kitchen – Pastry Market

Logan Square Kitchen – Another Event Logan Square Kitchen has another event for you to attend if you are in the Chicago area. Their Spring Pastry Market is happening April 10, 2010. Open to the public, they will feature foods from different venders. The full …read more

UK Based Health Rack New Product – Choco Vit

UK Based Health Rack New Product – Choco Vit

OK – this sound interesting. Wished your daily vitamins tasted like dark chocolate, or wished you could eat a piece of dark chocolate on a regular basis? UK based Health Rack has a new product to try. Their Choco Vit supplements contain dark chocolate and freeze …read more

Pastry Show and Culinary Salon

Pastry Show and Culinary Salon

Pastry Show and Culinary Salon – in the Raleigh Convention Center in North Carolina.
Presented by Wake Tech Comminity College. All proceeds benefit the Wake Tech Culinary Arts Fund.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010 beginning at 4:00.

This event will have a LIVE Cake Decorating Challenge where the theme is ‘Childhood Memories.’

Also at this event: ACF pastry and cold food salon, live cake auction, tastings from local restaurants, ice carving exhibits, and more.

For more information:
http://foundation.waketech.edu/pastry_show/


Renee Shelton.

What is Wheat Disappearance?

What is Wheat Disappearance?

What is wheat dispearance? If anyone has read any food commidity report or opened up an industry news magazine, that term often pops up. Often mislabled and confused with other terminology, I found a great definition/explanation which comes from the book: Wheat Production, Properties and Quality by W. …read more