Cooking Q&A Chef James T. Ehler

WHO AM I?

Chef James T. Ehler, (webmaster, cook, chef, writer, computer nerd). I have been cooking for over 35 years, spending a little more than 5 years apprenticing with several Colorado chefs, and was a working Executive Chef for 20 years. I am a former executive chef of Martha's Steak & Seafood, the Reach Hotel (both in Key West); the Hilton Hotel in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the New Bern Golf and Country Club, N.C., the Cripple Creek Country Club and Brittany Hill in Colorado. I have been a member of the Chefs de Cuisine of the Pikes Peak Region (American Culinary Federation) and the Colorado Chefs de Cuisine (ACF). I have served as president of the Arkansas State Professional Culinary Association (ACF), and was a founding member and president of the Conch Republic Chapter of the ACF. I now work as a cook (not the chef) and webmaster for Blue Heaven Restaurant in Key West, Florida (no more 60+ hour weeks as an exec chef!). This enables me to concentrate on the Culinary Encyclopedia I have been working on for many years. My Food Reference website contains some of that material. (In the interests of full disclosure, the picture of me on the website is 10 years old. I'm much younger now :-)

James T. Ehler (webmaster, cook, chef, writer) Blue Heaven Restaurant, Key West FL http://www.blueheavenkw.com Food Reference Website http://www.foodreference.com Sign up for the Food Reference Newsletter!