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HONORABLE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN TOQUE NEWS LETTER
DECEMBER 2006 Las Vegas, NV
Communications: Letters, cards, e-mails and phone calls to/from:
Amato Ferrero, Oliver Sommer, Robert Nograd, Tom Hickey, Jim Miller, Van Atkins, Mike Minor, Jan Verdonkschot, Willy Rossel, Alex Cerino, Thom Mass, Dan Varano, Gaspard and Madeline Caloz, Ed Brown, Jim Kosec, Stanley Nicas and they all say hello and regards to everyone.
NEWS ABOUT MEMBERS:
Health News:
Let us make sure to keep in communication with all those who are not feeling well a card, phone call, or letter really helps. Remember—Oliver Sommer, John Carroll, James and Barb Kosec, Rudolph Soeder, Mary Colletti, Paul Pantano, and Stanley Nicas. We hope for all our members’ quick recovery and good health.
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From: "Alex Cerino"
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Subject: checking in
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:50:44 -0500
I have had a few things going wrong. Sept 19th I had a triple by pass. I thought I would be spared that part of the Cerino family legacy. It started with a routine checkup and two days later I was on the table getting it done. It seems I had a silent heart attack a while ago and never knew it. I was exercising every day and no chest pains or shortness of breath. I was lucky, as I had one artery totally blocked one 80percent and one 60 percent. I am doing fine now riding my bike an hour each day. Oh yeah today the Doctor told me today I have to have a total knee replacement on my right leg. It can not be done until March as there is a six month wait when you have heart surgery. Alex Cerino
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And From Mary Petersen
Last month, I was elected treasurer for the International Foodservice Editorial Council, a group of people involved with foodservice communications. I have served as a president in the past and then was elected back to the board and consequently asked to serve as treasurer. All of the foodservice magazines as well as publicists for food manufacturers and commodity groups are members of this organization. I am a part of it because of our on-line magazine for educators called "The Gold Medal Classroom" which is free to all educators and can be found at www.cafemeetingplace.com.
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And FROM THOM MAAS
I just returned from a combination business -pleasure trip to Europe and a week later to Canada where I had an opportunity to visit some old friends and make a few new ones.
Three days prior to Christmas I will be prepared to roast 125 turkeys, pack with mashed potatoes, gravy, vegetables and other goodies, than deliver to the less fortunate on Christmas-morning, this will be my 7th.year and I feel pretty good about that !
On New Years Eve I will be flying to St Augustine to celebrate the New Year with Ed Brown and friends and leave on a Caribbean cruise on Jan .5th.
Jean I would like to wish you and your family the very best for a healthy and prosperous 2007
Looking forward to seeing you next July!
Sincerely, Thom Maas
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SAD NEWS
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ADDRESS CHANGES:
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NOMINATIONS for TWO COMMANDER DIRECTORS
We need nominations for two Commander Directors
PLEASE SUBMIT IN WRITING ALL NOMINATIONS TO:
JOHN KEMPF, NOMIN ATION CHAIRMAN
27952 N. DARRELL ROAD
WAUCONDA, IL 60084
PHONE 847-526-3466
All candidates must accept the nomination by written acceptance to Mr. John Kempf
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COMMITTEES AND BOARDS
BOARD OF ACCEPTANCE
William Lyman, Grand Commander, Chairman
John Kempf, Past Grand Commander
Stanley Nicas, Past Grand Commander
Jean E. Clary, Past Grand Commander
Oliver Sommer, Past Grand Commander
Dr. Robert Nograd, Grand Commander ex Officio
ADVISORY COUNCIL (Art. 15.0)
William Lyman, Grand Commander
John Kempf, Past Grand Commander
Stanley Nicas, Past Grand Commander
Jean E. Clary, Past Grand Commander
Oliver Sommer, Past Grand Commander
Dr. Robert Nograd-Grand Commander exOfficio
Nominating & Elections
John Kempf - Chairman 847-526-3466
Jean Clary, Co-Chairman 702-458-2054
Robert Nograd 954-721-2147
Committee for 2007 Meeting
Van Atkins, Chairman 702-221-0414
Gustav Mauler Vice Chairman
Parliamentarian
Dr. L Edwin Brown 904-471-3863
Permanent Records Custodian
Tom Hickey Sullivan University
Education/Scholarship Committee
Walter“Spud”Rhea 502-456-6504
Van Atkins 702-221-0414
Karl Guggenmos 401-942-9792
Oliver Sommer 636-947-3795
Sergeant of Arms
Van Atkins 702-221-0414
Norman Hart 716-650-0289
Cookbook Sales
Jim & Barbara Kosec 515-262-3312
Promotions & Public Relations
Joel Tanner 616-891-0491
Senior Advisory Committee
Oliver Sommer, Chairman636-947-3795
Luigi La Valle 513-662-7326
Amato Ferrero 706-744-0326
Willy Rossel 305-901-4147
Newsletter
Jean Clary--editor 702-458-2054
I.R.S. Non Profit Status, 501(C)(3)
Bill and Darlene Lyman 770-888-7646
Health and Welfare Committee
Walter (Spud) Rhea
Michael Minor
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NOTE!! All donation checks should be “General Fund or Scholarship Fund” made payable to:
"Honorable Order of the Golden Toque" and sent to:
COMMANDER TREASURER
JAMES MILLER
6679 SHANNON LANE
MENTOR, OH, 44060
PHONE: HOME: 440-639-1453
OFFICE: 440-350-1100-X204
Those of you who have been so generous with your monies, time, effort and support, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!! ********************
New FISCAL YEAR STARTS: MAY 1, 2006
DONORS—2006
Steve Pollack
John Lubinski
Gino Corelli
Richard Trompsoh
Cora Sinkledam
Hans Roth
Orville Middendorf
John Bogacki
Hiroshi Noguchi
John Carroll
Jesse Barbosa
Van Atkins
Major Jarmon
Spud Rhea
Jean-Jacque Deitrich
Scott Gilbert
Dan Varano
Mike Zelski
Mary Petersen
Clarke Bernier
Werner Zefferer
Mike Minor
Tom Hickey
Robert Nograd
Fritz Sonnenschmidt
Robert Garlough
Paul Pantano
Harry Hoffstadt
Louis Perrotte
Rudiger Grimm
John Kaufmann
Phil Learned
Marga Bosnjak
Tom Macrina
Joel Tanner
Hubert Schmeider
Tom Wright
Clara Mauti
Willy Rossell
Bob Chester
Bert Cutino
Clifton Williams
Bernard Urban
Ollie Sommer
If your name is missing and you have made a contribution please notify us.NOTE: NEW Fiscal year STARTS;
MAY 1, 2006
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IMPORTANT DATES
ANNUAL MEETING
JULY 15, 16, 17. 2007
ORLEANS HOTEL
ROOM RATE $60.00 +tax
Las Vegas, NEVADA
And
2008 PHILADELPHIA, PA
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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS TO
December
L. Edwin Brown - December 1st = 72
Clifton Williams - December 5th = 65
Gino Corelli - December 9th = 74
Barbara Kuck - December 11th = 53
Van Atkins - December 11th = 57
Ruediger Grimm - December 12th = 67
Hans Roth - December 16th = 83
Joe Eidem - December 23rd = 57
Luigi LaValle - December 27th = 76
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“END OF SNAIL MAIL”
The members and the board of
Directors have made the decision to stop mailing the newsletter to members who have e-mail addresses. The newsletter is posted on the Golden Toque website within a day or two after publishing. All newsletters for the past two years are archived on the website. This decision by the board and members present at this year’s annual meeting will save the organization over $2,000.00 yearly and these savings can then be applied to scholarships (See Annual Meeting Minutes).
Mailings to all members with e-mail will be discontinued as of February 1st, 2007.
This will allow time for members to get used to logging into the web page and viewing the newsletters before snail mail stops for them. Anyone who has problems may e-mail or contact the Commander Secretary Tom Hickey for assistance.
Members who do not have e-mail accounts based on the present Membership Roster will continue to receive a hard copy of the Newsletter from Jean Clary.
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Procedures for getting onto the Golden Toque “members only” area of the website.
SAVE
TO GET YOUR NEWSLETTER FROM NOW ON GO TO:
To Go to web site:
Enter this address:
www.orderofthegoldentoque.com
- Hit “login” in top right hand corner of the page (sometimes you have to enter the login twice, due to a glitch in the program) “Have patience”.
Username: Using lowercase, type in your first initial and then last name. (example: jdoe)
Password: identical to the above (example: jdoe) Then once you are into the system, you may change your Password. You may then view all areas of the website that are for “Members Only”. To “logout” go again to the top right hand corner where the “login” previously was, click on it and you will be logged out. THANKS,,JEAN E. CLARY
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GENTLEMEN CHEFS:
The reason for learning and logging on the Toque site is to help justify the expense and time involved in maintaining this site. This can only be established by using the site and you chefs learning how to use the Golden Toque Site. All visits to the site are logged and are called hits.
We also would like to reduce the expense of stamps, envelopes, paper, time and etc. Now those of you who do not have access to a computer or how to use we will still mail the newsletter to them.
Jean E. Clary
I am still getting members who are writing their whole names or putting their first initial and middle initial and then not getting access.Remember jdoe as name then jdoe as password.
Thanks. Tom HICKEY
NEW GOLDEN TOQUE MEMBERS FOR INDUCTION IN JULY 2007
Joseph Eidem
Spouses Name: Valery
Address: 4555 Noche Lane
Reno, NV 89502
Home Phone: 775-825-4621
Work Phone: 775-982-4694
E-Mail:
Thomas Maas
Address: 2605 Sky Lark Road
Wilmington, DE 19808
Home Phone: 302-998-0816
Work Phone:
Helen L. Merkle
Spouses Name:
Address: 4137 West 160th Street
Cleveland, OH 44135
Home Phone: 216-671-1017
Work Phone: 330-887-0853
E-Mail:
John Zehnder
Spouses Name: Janet
Address: 515 Heine Street
Frankenmuth, MI 48734
Home Phone: 989-652-6584
Work Phone: 989-652-0410
E-Mail:
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Water or Coke?
This is really an eye opener.... We all know that water is important but I've never seen it written down like this before.
WATER
1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
3. Even MILD dehydration will slow down one's metabolism as much as 3%.
4. One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5. Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6. Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
7. A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
8. Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
9. If you have chronic headaches or migraines, suck down a 20oz bottle of water at the onset!!! It helps to lessen the pain (if you follow that with Gatorade or Pedialite it will help even more!!)
And now for the properties of Coke:
1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the truck to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.
3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from porcelain and china.
4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for sumptuous brown gravy.
8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains.
9. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
For Your Info:
1. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days. Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis.
2. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material
Placards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
3. The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years!
Now the question is...
Would you like a Coke or a glass of water?
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The Purina Diet............
I was in Wal-Mart buying a large bag of Purina for Lola and was in line to check out. A woman behind me asked if I had a dog........ Duh!
I was feeling a bit crabby so on impulse, I told her no, I was starting 'The Purina Diet' again, although I probably shouldn't because I'd ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care unit with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IV's in both arms. Her eyes about bugged out of her head.
I went on and on with the bogus diet story and she was totally buying it. I told her that it was an easy, inexpensive diet and that the way it works is to load your pockets or purse with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The package said the food is
nutritionally complete so I was going to try it again.
I have to mention here that practically everyone in the line was by now enthralled with my story, particularly a tall guy behind her.
Horrified, she asked if something in the dog food had poisoned me and was that why I ended up in the hospital.
I said no.....I'd been sitting in the street licking my butt when a car hit me.
I thought the tall guy was going to have to be carried out the door.
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A Little History about Chefs
By Jan Verdonkschot
A historic fact is the certification program was accepted in 1972 and ratified I n 1973, 34 years ago—it was introduced by Jan Verdonkschot in Dallas, Texas.
Jan was National Secretary of the ACF. He functioned many years as the National Secretary, National Certification Chairman and ACFEI Chairman. A point of interest approx. 8,700chefs and culinarians have been certified.
My good friend Joseph Amendola invited me with the support of the CIA President Henry Barbour, who treated me royally in his beautiful home and the campus of the institute.
Below is a commencement speech that I gave on May 22,1976, thirty years ago, at the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park..
President Barbour, Culinary Institute Officers, Faculty members Mothers and Dads, Honored guest,future Chefs, Culinarians.