As from Wednesday i’ll give cooking classes at TM Cocinas, a super modern store which sells kitchen equipment and makes your kitchen furniture to order, great stuff. I’ll post some pictures later
Expo Mango 2009
Expomango in Bani-DR, where you can find just about every mango there is under the sun
http://www.expomango.org/
Angus Ribeye Steak
This was our lunch today, ribeye steak with potatoes, tomato salad and hot sauce. The avocados aren’t ready yeat to eat, maybe anotehr 5-6 weeks.
Dominican Republic receives flights bound for Mexico
The vice president of the hoteliers and restaurateurs grouped in Asonahores Friday said more than 50 flights with tourists who were headed to Mexico will arrive in the country this week, after the H1N1 virus that affects that nation prompted a change of destination. Arturo Villanueva said those flights are being received via an agreement with Mexican hoteliers, as a show of solidarity. He said all the necessary preventive measures have been taken across the country’s ports and airports and all necessary equipment have been acquired to gauge body temperatures. The hotelier also lauded president Leonel Fernandez’s decision to allocate 50 million pesos to purchase antiviral medicine. Villanueva said in addition to the measures the authorities have taken in hospitals and hotel zones, any person with an abnormal body temperature is subjected to an examination.
Dominican hoteliers join forces to boost tourism in Puerto Plata
Puerto Plata.– Puerto Plata, the most important city in Dominican Republic’s north coast owns countless tourist attractions and sites of great historic and cultural value that should be taken better advantage of and put to better use. For this purpose, the Associations of Hotels, Restaurants and Tourism Business of Puerto Plata (Ashonorte), the Playa Dorada Hotel, Condominium and Commercial Establishment Owners Association (AHPD) and the Association of Hotels and Restaurants of Sosua and Cabarete (Ashoresoca) have joined forces and signed a strategic alliance. According to the document, the alliance will set in motion a plan to promote Puerto Plata as a tourist destination and will stimulate the creation of new businesses and complementary offers and will cooperate with the city´s Historic Center Office in its tasks of remodeling, beautifying and revitalizing this cultural and commercial area.
New Year’s Eve at Gran Ventana Resort
My parents and Jennifer
My mom, Amparo and me
Broiled lobster
Some of my kitchen brigade of a total of 82 cooks and cleaning staff
Strawberry mousse
Shrimp cascade
Shrimp ceviche
More shrimps
Crispy suckling pig, i mean crispy, it was just great
Gravad lax, a swedish specialty, but made with my own secret recepie
This was the biggest hit at the buffet, served with the traditional Hofmästarsos made of mustard and fresh dill
Sushi Station
Cranberry Festival of Wisconsin
http://www.hotelfandb.com/blog/
Read here about the worlds largest cranberry festival, written by my friend Peter Gebauer. We worked together on the Royal Viking Sea from 1980 until 1982, which was then one of the best cruise ships afloat. I have to make everything possible to meet him again after all these years, he is now working as Executive Chef in Milwaukee-Wisconsin, at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino.
Jobs at hotels in the Dominican Republic
Around 3,500 applicants presented their résumés to be selected to cover the 1,700 jobs available in 11 hotels offered through the Labor Ministry’s (SETH) Job Fair
The applicants, who arrived early morning from different regions of the country, made long lines before presenting their papers to the representatives of the hotel companies, all members of the East Zone Hotels and Tourist Projects Association.
Labor minister Max Puig, who headed the event, said the Fair tries to link the supply of jobs with the demand. “The Labor Ministry is there to bring together the capital and the work, because in this manner opportunities are created for the construction of a better country.”
VH Hotels & Resorts
This is the company I work for now and just love it, great place, great people to work for.Occupancy is a bit low at the moment, around 60 % which is not bad for this time of the year. Later I write more about the hotels and the company.
Luzcace Pottery - Ceramic Art and fashion jewellery in Puerto Plata - DR 