Chalmers - Food jobs: 150 great jobs for culinary students, career changers and food lovers

PRAISE

Wit, wisdom, and vervethese are only three of Irena Chalmers most wonderful traits. So many of us in the food world have benefited from her intelligence and enthusiasm, whether through a collaboration or simply a stimulating conversation. Now she is sharing her talents with a new generation of young people. Long live Irena Chalmers!

DARRA GOLDSTEIN,
EDITOR IN CHIEF, GASTRONOMICA

I know of no one who knows as much about food and the industry as [Chalmers] does. Certainly no one writes with as much candor and humor.

RICHARD GRAUSMAN, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT,
THE CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM (C-CAP)

Irena Chalmers should be right up there with Julia and Jim in spreading the word about good food in America. As the First Lady of Food books for three decades, Chalmers presence on the page or in a lecture hall charges the atmosphere with vitality, wit and wisdom.

BETTY FUSSELL, FOOD HISTORIAN AND AUTHOR OF
THE STORY OF CORN, MY KITCHEN WARS AND RAISING STEAKS

Irena Chalmers knows her stuff. Over the years she has reinvented herself as an award-winning cookbook author, restaurant consultant, cooking school teacher, speechwriter and CIA instructor. Who could be a better and guide to finding a job in the food business?

DIANE JACOB, AUTHOR OF WILL WRITE FOR FOOD: THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO WRITING
COOKBOOKS, RESTAURANT REVIEWS, ARTICLES, MEMOIR, FICTION, AND MORE

Irena Chalmers is a prolific publisher, author, teacher and food consultanta very versatile and witty enlightener

BEVERLY STEPHEN
EXECUTIVE EDITOR FOOD ARTS

Irena Chalmers brings insights and information to the enormous world of food enthusiasts like no other voice in the arena. Her writing is as interesting and re fined as a carefully crafted meal.

AUTHOR OF START UP MARKETING, JUST SAY YES,
BRAINDING COMMENTATOR FOR NATIONAL NEWS AND
COLUMNIST FOR NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Irena and I had the good common fortune to work with the greatest restaurateur of the 20th century, Joe Baum. We both spent years trying to anticipate his response to our proposals. Irena was one of the few personalities able to cool his fevered brow and make him happy. This is a gift she brings to most encounters. After all, she was once a nurse. Her sunny disposition and good will, both in her writing and her presence, make you want to spend time with her. Youll feel better afterwards.

MILTON GLASER, DESIGNER (OF I LOVE NY LOGO)

Irenas column is a perennial favorite of Chef Magazine readers. Theres a reason why its the very last page in the magazineto ensure they read the rest.

ABBIE JARMAN, EDITOR, CHEF MAGAZINE

Irena is one of my favorite people in life. She is warm, witty and... a brilliant cook. She thinks with a first-rate mind and writes with an angel on her pen.

CHEF DAVID JAMES ROBINSON
EXECUTIVE CHEF/OWNER
BEZALEL GABLES FINE CATERING & EVENTS

For the past 25 years, with both wit and wisdom, Irena Chalmers has been instructing us on the culinary worlds virtues, which she is always quick to trumpet, and its vices, which she skewers with delicious accuracy. Her keynote addresses to major food-related conferences have pinpointed trends that have significantly shaped an entire industry, noting both its promise and potential and its possible pitfalls. Her many books have enlightened and entertained thousands of devoted culinary practitioners.

PHILLIP S. COOKE AND DANIEL D. MAYE
MANAGING PARTNERS (RETIRED), FSA GROUP & PALS

Irena Chalmers is a masterful cook, a dazzling intellect, a beloved teacher, a sparkling writer and more, much more. She brings everything she has to the table of life and dispenses it all bountifully and generously. Her food, her knowledge, her know-how, her insights. Theyre there for all of us to have and enjoy. So, pull up a chair and have a seat at Irenas table. Youll have wonderful time. You will be nourished. You will be filled. Its a promise.

ELAINE YANNUZZI
FORMER PRESIDENT, EXPRESSION UNLTD.

The distinguished and absolutely delectable Irena Chalmers always has her finger on what is important in our lives. She knows, for instance, what the world needs now are jobs, including those in the culinary world. Food Jobs makes a valuable contribution at the right time.

PETER D. FRANKLIN, FOOD COLUMNIST,
UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE.

I think every incoming student should be exposed to at least one class with Ms. Chalmers, It will be a truly enlightening experience that no one should be deprived of.

RANDY WALTERS
CULINARY STUDENT, CULINARY OF AMERICA

PRAISE FOR

The Food Professionals Guide

Compiled by Irena Chalmers, Foreword by Julia Child

Here in one place are all the names that we used to have to find by hunting through a dozen different directories. You no longer have to spend hours on your own tracing down a fact, a service or a person, the editors of this directory have done the work for you. I cant imagine how we have all lived without it.

JULIA CHILD

The thought of even attempting to compile such a volume is mind-boggling.

LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS

Those with a fervid interest in food will take real delight in this book, and serious cooks will find it invaluable.

JOHN MARIANI

This kind of giant, comprehensive national directory of people, products and services in the food and wine industries which many have long wished for has finally been published.

RESTAURANT DIGEST.

PRAISE FOR

The Great American Food Almanac

The Great Food Almanac is a feast to readhelpful, healthy data in an easy format.

ROBERT MONDAVI, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, ROBERT MONDAVI WINERY

With this book, Irena Chalmers provides ravening food-fact foragers with something richly meaty or delectably odd to chew on every day of the year.

MICHAEL & ARIANE BATTERBERRY
FOUNDING EDITORS, FOOD ARTS MAGAZINE

Irena Chalmers has the quickest mind in the food world. Facts and fantasies crowd the ever-lively pages, carefully annotated. What really sets The Great Food Almanac apart is its diversity and humor. The PC Thought Police run for cover when Irena hits town. And those who feel the fun has been removed from our food along with the fat and frosting have a welcome opportunity to binge on smiles and chuckles.

WILLIAM RICE
FOOD AND WINE COLUMNIST, CHICAGO TRIBUNE

I havent had so much fun with a book since the long-lost days of The Whole Earth Catalog. Thanks from all of us out here who are hopelessly compulsive browsers, relentless fact and figure collectors, amateur muckrakers, gossip hounds and of course, food lovers. Youve left a treasure chest on our doorsteps.

NACH WAXMAN
FOUNDER AND OWNER, KITCHEN ARTS AND LETTERS, NEW YORK CITY

Nobody does it better than Irena Chalmers in this new almanac of fascinating and juicy tidbits seasoned with her famous irrepressible humor.

MAGGIE WALDRON
EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR, KETCHUM FOOD CENTER

For me, receiving a new book from Irena Chalmers is always thrill. The Great Food Almanac bursts with wit, charm and Irenas delightful information. What a way to learn!

SHEILA LUKINS
CO-AUTHOR OF THE SILVER PALATE COOKBOOKS

food JOBS

Irena Chalmers

150 GREAT JOBS

FOR CULINARY STUDENTS,

CAREER CHANGERS AND FOOD LOVERS

Copyright 2008 by Irena Chalmers

FIRST EDITION

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