Chef Mark on FOX Business Channel

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RPV19: Chef Mark on FOX Business Channel

ReMARKable Palate Video #19: Chef Mark on FOX Business Channel

Video of Chef Mark's appearance on FOX Business Channel, Friday November 2nd, speaking about the benefits of a Personal Chef Service with host Tom Sullivan.



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Chef Mark to Appear on FOX Business Channel

I am scheduled to appear on the new FOX Business Channel this coming Friday Nov. 2nd between 11:30AM - Noon EST. I'll be a guest for a short 3-4 minute segment to speak about the Personal Chef industry. This is a relatively new cable channel, in the CNBC vein, so "check your local listings", TiVo it, and tell your friends!


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Chef Mark to Appear on FOX Business Channel

I am scheduled to appear on the new FOX Business Channel this coming Friday Nov. 2nd between 11:30AM - Noon EST. I'll be a guest for a short 3-4 minute segment to speak about the Personal Chef industry. This is a relatively new cable channel, in the CNBC vein, so "check your local listings", TiVo it, and tell your friends!


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I'm in the USA Today!

The AP published an article today on the growing popularity of personal chefs -- starring me! I'm amazed at how many outlets across the country have picked this piece up, including Business Week, the Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, Florida Times Union, Arizona Republic, ABCNews.com, The Huffington Post, etc.

It appears in the business section of USA Today, along with a big photo of me chopping herbs in a client's kitchen, but you can see the AP version here:
Popularity of Personal Chefs Rises

Excerpt below:

Mark Tafoya, who owns the New York-based ReMARKable Palate personal chef service, cooks for regular weekly clients and also offers one-time meal services, such as romantic dinners for two.

Tafoya prepares the meals in the client's home, with the dishes ranging from chicken enchiladas with a green tomatillo sauce to crab lasagna with bechamel sauce.

For regular clients, the week's meals are discussed in advance and are created in accordance with their dietary needs and personal tastes. Organic, vegetarian and kosher options are available and nothing is repeated for six months unless requested, he said.

Tafoya said that by cooking for the same clients over a long time, he's able to develop a kind of intimacy and customization that restaurant chefs just aren't able to.

"I think that when I do hit it off and when they like my food and I understand them and what they like to eat, I can suggest new dishes that they might not have tried before, but I think might be right for them," Tafoya said.

Tafoya said he was drawn to the profession after careers in acting and teaching. He saw it as a way to turn his love of food and cooking into a viable business.

Along with the ReMARKable Palate, Tafoya also is the co-owner and executive chef of The Gilded Fork, an online media company featuring recipes, podcasts and articles and blogs about food.

Tafoya said his typical weekly clients are incredibly busy, career-oriented people who don't have time to cook, but still appreciate a quality meal.



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Chef Mark on the Radio in Ecuador!

I just had a surreal experience. I was interviewed for a radio show in Guayaquil, Ecuador called El Aguacate (The Avocado). It was fast and furious, and we had a problem with the connection at first, but we spoke about steakhouse trends and they asked for my recommendations for a good side dish for a thick juicy steak. Hopefully, I'll have the clip of my appearance to share with you soon.

The show runs live in Ecuador, and they stream over the internet at http://www.radiocity.com.ec/


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Chef Mark Featured on TheStreet.com

Steve Marzolf shadowed me on a day of cooking, and this article at www.TheStreet.com is the result:

Home-Cooked Cuisine, by Steve Marzolf

He's putting in hours at the office, but his galley kitchen uptown has become the set of an intricate ballet performed by personal chef Mark Tafoya.

Braised beef bubbles into a plume of Moroccan spices, and steam sizzles from a deglazed pork pan.

Tafoya has been at work for about an hour and a half, and he's entering what he refers to as "prime time," which means all real estate has evaporated from the oven, stovetop, counter and cutting boards.

Once the smoke clears, a $100 trip to Whole Foods has been transformed into a week of fresh food, all available at the touch of a microwave button.

Cooking at a Clip

Tafoya's day starts with an animated trip to the market at 11 a.m. He bills clients half his hourly rate for shopping, and not a penny's wasted as he shoots his cart through open spaces, grabbing granola or a bunch of carrots as he rolls by.

Attacking the store with a list of items tailored to the shelves' layout, he's exacting about the details, from the quality of ingredients to how they're packed in the insulated bag slung over his shoulder.

"Is your flank steak butterflied or pounded?" he asks the meat clerk before having a pork loin cut to his specifications.

"Some of the checkers know me and pack things the way I want. They're like, 'It's the weirdo chef!'" Tafoya quips.

The cooking itself, carefully choreographed to keep burners free and progress moving, takes two or three hours and ends with seven dishes cooling in microwave-safe containers.

Read the rest of the article HERE.

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Chef Mark featured at Fast Company

Fast Company magazine has featured the ReMARKable Palate Podcast as one of the "12 podcasts you should be listening to", and included me in one of their distinctive Fast Company slideshows. I'm honored to be counted among BBC's Digital Planet, Uncensored Blues, Robert Scoble's Scobleshow, Harvard Business Review's Ideacast, and Doctor's Without Borders.

12 Podcasts for the Creative Class

Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers--those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.

The creative class -- the nebulous, but much bally-hooed, demographic made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and artists -- constitutes an increasing portion of the American workforce. Social scientist Richard Florida, who gave the group its moniker, sees the rise of the creative class as a powerful force that is shaping the economies of post-industrial cities. Yet, today many members of the creative class can live and work anywhere, thanks to home-office technology and the Internet. Working as freelancers, researchers, or in Internet-related fields, the creative class is spreading beyond communities, like Austin or Seattle, that are typically associated with the demographic. Whether they live in Ellsworth, Maine, or Peoria, Illinois, creative professionals still look for ways to satisfy their artistic and technological interests. In towns without Universities or symphonies, the creative class can now go online to find intellectual and cultural enrichment. Here are twelve podcasts designed for the eclectic tastes of the creative class:



For the chef: ReMARKable Palate

This podcast, part of the Gilded Fork's Culinary Podcast Network, is hosted by personal chef Mark C. Tafoya. Besides sharing recipes, Tafoya interviews chefs, food writers, and gourmets, and takes listeners behind the scenes of popular restaurants.

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