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7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Registration
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
“Mixing Bowl” Hospitality Suite
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast
Breakfast with Joe Brown and Lisa Burke. Get the
up-to-date information
on your general liability and health insurance
coverage.
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Opening General Session
Candy Wallace, American Personal Chef
Association
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Keynote Address: To Roux or not to Roux...
Kevin Belton, New Orleans School of Cooking
Morgan Clevenger, Legacy Tours and Events
Get the definitive answer to this and other
secrets of New Orleans and Louisiana cuisine.
Historian Morgan Clevenger will give you the
background on the culinary heritage of the region
while award-winning chef and personality Kevin
Belton opens the door on New Orleans cooking
techniques that influence many of the regions
specialties. Fun and informative, you’ll also learn
how to adapt and customize New Orleans dishes and flavors
to your own menus.
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Networking Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 a.m.
Educational Workshops
(Workshops will be presented concurrently)
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Getting the Most Out of Mastercook
Meredith Eriksen, Whisk For Hire
Many personal chefs consider Mastercook to be an
invaluable aid to
their business. In this workshop, learn tips and
tricks for getting the most
out of Mastercook - using shopping lists, menus and
cookbooks, and
tweaking the database to get better information.
We’ll talk about some
of the ways personal chefs use Mastercook and
provide you with a list
of Mastercook resources.
Networking Your Way to Success
Betsy Jaffe, Home Cookin’ Personal Chef Service
Can you imagine cooking for a client, while dozens
of members of your
extended sales force voluntarily sing your praises
to potential customers
looking for a personal chef? It’s not too good to be
true – it’s what
happens when you are effectively networking. Learn
tips for effectively
working your existing network, creating a new
networking group from
scratch and learning about organizations that can
help put you in touch
with the clients you need to get busy and stay that
way..
12:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Lunch and Info Fair
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Educational Workshops
(Workshops will be presented concurrently)
Focus! Focus! Focus!
Nicole Aloni, Author, Chef, Coach
Likely you’ve become a personal chef in order to
live a life more in tune
with your values around self-determination, financial
success, freedom
and/or nurturing. Everyone knows that marketing to a
targeted group
makes dollars and sense. In this workshop, you will
work on exercises
that help you clarify your values and discover which
group(s) of clients
are most likely to be a fit with your personal values
and goals. Finding
a match is likely to result in happier clients, a
happier you, more repeat
business and a stronger bottom line. Win, win, win!
In addition to her
extensive career in catering, writing and teaching,
Nicole has recently
added a new skill. She has completed training, at
Coaches Training
Institute, as a co-active career and life coach.
Slow Food and the Personal Chef - Eating the Slow
Food Way in
Today’s Fast Paced World
Poppy Tooker, Slow Food USA
Poppy has given thousands of cooking demonstrations
over the years
at various cooking schools, on the Heritage Stage at
the New Orleans
Jazz festival, and at various conventions. She is
the founding president
of Slow Food New Orleans, the local convivium of the
international
movement.
Open Evening
APCA’s open evening is intended to provide
conference attendees an
opportunity to get together with colleagues and
enjoy a taste of New
Orleans. For your convenience, we have provided a
list of suggested
restaurants along with their phone numbers and Web
addresses.
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