Experience

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  Music and Food Writers and Educators, Inc.

  • Chicago, IL

  • Chief Executive Officer

    • Jun 1985 - Present
    • Chicago, IL
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  Old Town School of Folk Music

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Teaching Faculty

    • Oct 1986 - Present
    • Greater Chicago Area
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  Chicago Tribune

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Freelance Columnist

    • Sep 2011 - Present
    • Greater Chicago Area

    My column, Prep School, has been running longer than Ptolemy XIII strode the earth and was collected into an eBook by Agate Publishing, where it reached #1 on Amazon's Professional Cook Book chart. Later in human history, it was released as an actual flesh and blood book that can be thrown at...

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  Self- employed

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Freelance musician, composer, songwriter

    • Apr 1960 - Present
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Mostly play Irish traditional music--an astonishingly unpopular genre--as an accompanist on guitar and bouzouki and have recorded and performed across U.S. and Europe with a shit-ton of different and awesome players like Grammy nominee Liz Carroll, Laurence Nugent, Maurice Lennon, etc., etc., et...

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  Kendall College

  • Chicago, IL

  • Assistant Professor, School of Culinary Arts

    • Oct 2008 - Jan 2020
    • Chicago, IL

    I taught tons of different classes in both the BA and AA programs, including Capstone, Knife Skills, Methods of Cooking, Garde Manger, Intro to Baking and Pastry, International Cuisine, Soups and Sauces, along with more academic classes such as Sustainability, Storeroom and Purchasing, etc. I&#39...

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  Fired Up Chicago

  • Chicago, IL

  • Executive Chef

    • Mar 2007 - Mar 2009
    • Chicago, IL

    Fired Up Chicago was all about bringing a mobile, Italian made wood burning brick oven to parties and corporate events.The 950˚F over floor was perfect for thin crust Neapolitan style pizzas. Real fire. Real chefs. Real cool. Unfortunately, also real illegal in Chicargo.

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  Answers Media

  • Food Writer

    • Feb 1960 - Feb 1960

    Developed recipes and wrote scripts for video culinary instruction, among other less exciting (sic) tasks. If you've ever shopped in a grocery owned by Albertson's, such as Jewel, Acme or Super Saver Foods, you've probably seen my work. And wept.

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  Plate Magazine

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Freelance writer

    • Jan 1960 - Jan 1960
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Wrote tons of articles. Edited tons of recipes. And a third thing, to be added at a later edit.