ReMARKable Palate – Chef Mark Tafoya | New York Metro Personal Chefs

ReMARKable Palate – Chef Mark Tafoya

Personal Chef Mark Tafoya has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, TheStreet.com, Time Out New York and Bon Appetit, on the FOX Business Channel, and his food writing appears in the new anthology Food and Philosophy published by Blackwell Press. He is also co-owner and Executive Producer of the Culinary Media Network, an online portal celebrating the sensual pleasures of food, and home of the world’s first all-food podcast network. His new cookbok, The Gilded Fork: Entertaining at Home, A Year of Dinner Parties, features 13 full dinner party menus, complete with Chef’s Notes and wine pairings, and makes the perfect gift for the foodie in your life.

A Message from Chef Mark

As a Personal Chef, I come to your home at your convenience, and do all the work, saving you time and money, and assuring that you get exactly the meals you want, when you want them.

Whether it’s regular weeknight meals for the family, stocking the freezer with meals for a new mother, a special Romantic Dinner for Two, or an in-home cooking lesson for you and your friends, I am here to provide you with fresh, custom made meals, and an entertaining time.

You can also give a GIFT CERTIFICATE for a Personal Chef Service or a Custom Cooking Class! Hiring a Personal Chef is a GREAT customer appreciation gift for business large and small.

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Brooklyn Cookin’

Our first Brooklyn Cookin’ Workshop this past October was such a huge success, we decided to do it again this summer! I’ve teamed with Chris Marquardt from Tips From the Top Floor, one of the most popular photography shows on the web, to develop this parallel track workshop. Chris leads the photographers, sharing tips and tricks of photography in general, and food photography in particular. I lead those interested in cooking as we explore the kitchen, learning foundational cooking techniques, and several great recipes that help us practice these techniques. Then every once in a while we get together to shoot the food we made, and then enojy the fruits of our collective labor.

This is the perfect (and rare) workshop where couples can learn together, even if they have different interests.

There are still a few spots left. Learn more about the workshop and register at www.tfttf.com/bk2010

Cooking With Chef Mark

The first full video course in the Cooking With Chef Mark series. Knife Skills 101 is an 8 episode series, showing you how to select a knife, keep it sharp, and cut safely. Chef Mark’s sure-fire technique will keep you from cutting yourself! Learn to chop, slice dice, mince, brunoise, and chiffonade herbs, peppers, onions, mushrooms, carrots, and garlic.

Here’s a 2 minute preview of what you’ll learn in the 8 lesson Knife Skills 101 series totaling more than 45 minutes of instruction: