I am now consulting for my good friend Sandi Andersen owner of #Dharma Nutrition,
http://www.dharmanutritionri.com/
I am availible for private classes and events through their website. Please look at their website, it is going to be amazing. A one stop website for all holistic nutrition related needs.
Thank you #Sandi Andersen and #Dharma Nutrition
Today in London the Worlds 50 best restaurants where named. At the top of the list in first place was Noma. This marked their 3rd year on top of the chart, and as my plans for the immediate future have changed I have taken a new step and goal to see that my next move is to work at the Best restaurant in the world. They not only make outstanding food, but encapsulate the same visions and philosophy of my own. I will keep everyone up to date on my progress towards my Denmark Adventure.
Thank you all,
#Matt McPherson
What is you favorite food from your heritage?
Although I have not gotten as much time as I would like to blog I still love it. As I read the book “Will write for food” by Dianne Jacob in which you are taken through all the different formats and styles of writing about food, whether its magazines, newspapers, books or blogs. It is an absolute job to read and learn to create my own voice as I continue my blogging. The book has pointed out to me that blogging is amazing because I can write whatever and whenever. Whatever thoughts on my mind, completely uncensored. As I learn and explore everything I find and discover I am able to share. In essence share my passion with the world, and hope someone finds it interesting :). If anyone else is interested in blogging, or writing even if its not about food I strongly encourage reading “Will Write For Food”.
Thanks Foodies,
Matt
It is a great day today as I am attending the RI annual composting conference. It is a event in which the best practices for industrialising and globalising the practice of composting, recycling and all other green waste disposal methods. One of the main goals is to find a way to create composting systems for schools, universities and all other large organisations with tons of waste, literally. Helping to put on this event is the excoriate education fund as well as Eco ri and the hope artiste village where it is being held.
Some of the speakers include Michael Virga the executive director of the united states composting council. The did an in depth analysis of the status of composting in the US for 2012 and where we should be headed. As amazing as this product is I am excited to see if they can implement it into the home kitchen as well as on the industrial scale.
Although barely scraping the surface of this inspirational event, I am much anticipating next years which lends itselfs to what new practices have been invented and implemented.
This upcoming years will prove to be exciting and can’t wait to see our growth and development.
A lot going on these days! I am working heavily with Dharma Nutrition on their new website that hopefully will be running soon. Also getting to working on next year studying gastronomy at BU and hopefully working at restaurant in Boston.
Does anyone have suggestions of places to work? whats your fav restaurant in Boston?
I have had a hard time discovering who I really am, and frankly I still don’t know. But one thing I have learned about myself is that I can grow and I can be better. I look back on how naive I was when first entering into college 5 years ago out of high school. I thought I had a plan, I thought I knew where I wanted to go. As it turns out I didn’t, and I was not ready for it even if I had known. I am able to look back on my plan and see I was not as interested as I thought I was. For I attended classes but spent hours studying subjects I wasn’t taking, but I always loved learning the new, being adventurous and discovery.
I went back home the following year to reassess my future. To learn what I loved and my passion was truly for, and I continued my education at my local community college to keep my thirst for knowledge wet. This allowed me to do a strange thing, to take course that sounded fun. I took French, and statistics, accounting, and college cooking course, micro economics and marketing as well as geography. These were the courses that sounded fun to me, not that I needed them or anything but they came natural. I studied these as it turned out put me on a course towards a business degree which I then transferred to my current school Johnson & Wales university; helping me to complete a bachelors a year early.
All the while I had found a place to wet another interest, food. A local restaurant had kindly taken the opportunity for cheap help and hired me as a dishwasher, with promise of teaching me the basics of a kitchen. One of my now friends Executive Chef Robert Smith is really responsible for me being so passionate. As I worked starting doing little things around the kitchen while fulfilling my main duties of dishwasher, I was able to see his passion for food. He is not necessarily the greatest chef, or the smartest, or even the most pure, but he loves food and was willing to share that and guide me in my first steps in the industry. He also had a remarkable talent for answering questions, at least those basic ones I had at the time, with an encyclopedic accuracy. He also did another thing; he allowed me to eat at create, if there was extra or time he let me make a sauce or roast a chicken. These little things all keep my teeth sunk into what was now becoming my obsession. A subject that truly enthralled me 24/7. This was where I could discover, create, learn and always find something I don’t know. A place where I could combine my first passion, or at least my interest, of science and technology.
I have an endless love of food, but not just for food, it’s for everything involving food, the food culture, ingredients, techniques, lingo, tastes, I have a love for discovery and true understanding. Any one of my classmates will tell you as they have to deal with my infinite number of questions throughout class, Many of which have are not needed as part of class material but rather just for the gain and complete understanding of a subject.. But I am an engineer, the application of science and mathematics by which the properties of matter and the sources of energy in nature are made useful to people, at heart. I have found that I can combine these. Not just by taking technology into the kitchen, but the logic and studious nature of any science major. Learn the basics of food, this entail not only going down into the molecular chemistry that takes place during the mallard reaction but its history and evolution as well.
I want to learn the culture and tradition of food; the roots, the molecular culture of food. I want to change the meaning of molecular gastronomy to encompass not just the science but the culture too. I want to find the reasons why the US doesn’t have any and is that why we are in such bad health. To learn the relationship of nutrition and food culture. I believe food is the meaning of life, and it’s true we live because we eat. Simple enough and how we live and feel and everything our body does can be resolved to “you are what you eat”. This realization was only amplified by my recent internship at the restaurant Mikla in Istanbul Turkey. Turkey offered me my first real glimpse of how life can be better with the depth of culture. There is a rich tradition in Turkey, one of the oldest, and I was fortunate enough to explore this culture with Food anthropologist Tangor Tan, who works for the Mikla restaurant company in Turkey explore just that; the rich culture and traditions of the Mediterranean and middle east.
This exploration bit off the piece of me that really showed me where I was destine to go. The richness of culture, the tradition and respect for this showed that there is more to learn and this is really the base of food. It is where to start and learning the rest of food. Once you learn why then you can learn how.
My passion is food, the true understanding of every detail. For how it is made to how it digests to how we as Homo sapiens use it. To how we start growing from hunters and gathers in the 10000 years ago all the way to making jellies and foams out of seaweeds. Then taking that knowledge and applying it to our world our food. Bring restaurants into new realms of tradition and history. This creates a cuisine that is not only healthy but sustainable and will be delicious.
Hello ALL,
I am happy to see people writing in with their questions! I assure you I get them and am currently writing some articles on the subjects. This is a great help, for I am going to be featured as a chef writer on a new nutrition website. So I need all the Ideas you can to get me writing articles.
Thank you all,
answers coming soon :)
Chef Matt
OMG awesomest pool table ever, and gorgeous photo too.
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