News from and about our members!

VP Guida to visit White House!

Our very own Vice President, Guida Ponte, has just been chosen along with 24 other celebrated chefs to travel to Washington, D.C to meet with Michelle Obama to be a part of the Chefs Move to Schools program. This program will pair chefs with schools in their communities to bring fun to fruits and vegetables, and teach kids about food, nutrition and cooking in an engaging way. And by working with school food service employees, administrators and teachers, chefs can help deliver these messages from the cafeteria to the classroom. Guida is traveling with Les Dames!

www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/05/13/chefs-move-schools

Please join us in congratulating Guida!

Cookie Swap Recipes

Our Holiday Cookie Swap was a beautiful and delicious affair. Recipes can be found by clicking here. Please note that they came in all formats, from typed to handwritten. If you have difficulty viewing them, just zoom in. Any questions about the recipes, just email us!

Book-signing & Tasting

Join Guild member Lisa Zwirn when she signs copies of her beautiful book, Christmas Cookies, at Wellesley Booksmith on Sunday, Dec. 6, from 2-4 pm. For more info, see the Co-Sponsored events page on our website.

Photos & Recipes from Holidays event

Thanks to all our speakers and sponsors! Holidays with the Pros was a rip-roaring success. Please see a small number of photos from the event in our photo gallery, to remind you of the beautiful, delicious evening, or to see what you sadly missed! Recipes for John Gertsen's delicous holiday punch & Barbara Lynch's Chestnut Veloute can be found by clicking here.

Isabel Chesak back from Egypt

Member Isabel Chesak just returned from two weeks in Egypt. On 11/3/09 she wrote "What an education! We visited the pyramids, the Sphinx, many temples . We saw and did so much! The trip was exciting but GRUELING! Lots of trudging through sand, uphill mostly, 100 degree temperatures, up at 5 am daily to beat the crowds. Did I mention the flies? The best parts of the trip were the two cruises we took, one on Lake Nasser and one on the Nile...ah, luxury and relaxation, my kind of tripping."

BIG EVENT WAS BIG SUCCESS

The Culinary Guild joined the ranks of Boston’s celebrity chefs, famous restaurants, notable wineries and bakeries, local cook book authors and magazines, hosted by none other that Jacques Pepin for an evening celebrating 20 years of the Boston University Culinary Arts Program. This sold out event with 1100 attendees was a huge success.

WRITER interviews CHEF

MEMBER of the BOARD Jennifer Wolcott has an interview with Alice Walters in the November/December 2009 issue of EATING WELL.

ORDER From NATICK FARM

Member Ursula King tells us:

You can order yummy treats from
Natick Community Organic Farm:

You can get...

• - grass fed and organically raised beef and pork in the Farm freezer
• - mixed salad greens all winter long from their passive solar greenhouses
• - and MAPLE SYRUP all year round

ENROLL IN SCHOOL!

Until Nov. 16th, new member Maureen Wheeler can get you a $500 discount on tuition at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, of which she is a graduate.

Her teachers included Deepak Chopra MD, Andrew Weil MD, Mark Hyman MD, Sally Fallon, David Wolfe, Walter Willett, Andrea Beaman - CHHC & chef, Anne Marie Colbin - owner of Natural gourmet Cooking School, and many more amazing people in the food/health industry. "This is a great program whether you are just interested in learning more about nutrition or you would like to start a new career in helping others to achieve better health and wellness. I can’t say enough about how awesome this experience was for me. " For more information, see www.integrativenutrition.com, or email the Guild at culinaryguild@gmail.com and we'll put you in touch with Maureen.

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who donated items to our very successful Opening Meeting raffle, and, of course, to all those who cooked, and all those who came! Thanks to our sponsors, Commander's Mansion, Peterson Party Center, and BLM Wines.

OCT 24 CHEF FEST:

CORPORATE MEMBER Verrill Farm is hosting many excellent events, including a CHEF FEST FOOD TASTING and BOOK SIGNING to benefit The Concord Agricultural Committee on Oct 24 from noon to 2. Cathy Walthers will be there too, along with Lisa Zwirn, not to mention the generous, devoted-to-local-farming Henrietta's Table chef Peter Davis, and others.
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OCT 28 BIG EVENT:

The Guild will be at the BIG EVENT. Don't miss it! It's the 20th Anniversary Celebration of the BU Culinary Arts Program, with Jacques Pepin!