Hill’s Kitchen

Hope everyone had a great holiday season with family and friends!  The weather has certainly put a ‘crimp’ in activities over the past couple of months and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to at least a ‘glimpse’ of some spring weather soon!  Some important news to share with you this month so we’re using a new plugin for WordPress to send out our newsletter.  If you come across any glitches, we’d appreciate you letting us know so we can correct the problem!

Subchapter News

Chef Scott Turley, CEC from Grinnell College has taken the reigns as president of our new ACF subchapter!  The weather postponed our meeting for January so our next meeting date will take place on Tuesday February, 16 at Riverside Casino in Riverside Iowa at 6 pm.  Chef Matt Meadows has some great information concerning his establishment’s upcoming hosting of Iowa’s first ACF sanctioned culinary competition.  Hope you can be there for this one!  http://acfofiowa.org/subchapter

ACF of Iowa News

The ACF of Iowa’s Annual Awards Banquet will take place this coming Sunday, January 10th at 6pm at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse in West Des Moines.  Tickets are $40.00 per person.  Hope you’ve voted for your favorite award candidates and that you plan to attend this event!  We’re all busy but this will be a great opportunity to get reaquainted and discuss the coming year’s activities.  http://acfofiowa.org

IHCC Scholarship Dinner

Tickets go on sale Monday morning at 8am for Indian Hills Community College’s Fourth Annual Scholarship Dinner.  In the past we’ve asked your help in bringing product and preparing a course with our scholarship recipients.  This year we’ve recieved donations from both Sysco and Hawkeye and we’ll be creating the menu, so all you’ll really need to do is drop by for the afternoon and help us serve!  Now if any of you would like to come down for the day and work with our students, by all means do!  This would be a great benefit for our students and they’d love to see you!  Otherwise, make plans to attend to help support financially the students of our culinary program.  Tickets are $50.00 per person and can be purchased by calling Chef Gordon Rader at 641.683.5313 or email me at grader@indianhills.edu.  Tony Gross from Johnson Brothers will be pouring the wine and it sounds like we have some interesting choices this year!  Our music department is working on bringing in a band again this year for your dancing pleasure so please be sure to attend!

ACF of Iowa Website

If anyone from the ACF of Iowa Chapter would like to take control of the chapter Website, please contact me.  The hosting is paid up for another year and it just requires someone to update chapter information.  I’d be happy to give you the keys to the controls!  http://acfofiowa.org

Wishing all of you the best this year!

See you Sunday evening!

Gordon

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at 10:48 am and is filed under Newsletter.