ACF Kansas City Chef's Association

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Congratulations go out to those who partcipated in the competitions at the ACF Central Regional Conference. To see the details of the ACF Central Regional Conference including our local winners please go to the Competitions page on this website.

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We hope that you will consider participating in this year’s event. This is the only fundraiser that our chapter conducts and our financial stability is dependent on this one event. Please look over the following information that has been provided to assist you in your anticipated preparation for this event here. Which includes an application.

The Boulevard Brewery will be our host again this year. Sharla Huseman and the Kansas Beef Council will be providing the presentation.

The Art Institutes, Capital Grille, Julien, Cafe Sebastien, and Dean & DeLuca's will be our dinner sponsors.

The presentation will begin promptly at 6:30 and last until 7:00-ish. The taps will be turned during the seminar.

We will have a brief business meeting from 7:00 to 7:20 after which the food lines will open.

The business meeting will include: An announcement on Slate of Officers for election, Slate for Chef and Purveyor of the year awards.

Powell Gardens

In June 2009 Powell Gardens opened the biggest expansion in its history—the 12-acre Heartland Harvest Garden. This is the nation’s largest edible landscape; a place to reconnect with where food comes from and to celebrate the pleasures of eating well. More than 2,000 types of food plants are grown throughout the season.

Last summer we introduced a new Garden Chef Demonstration Series at our open-air contemporary Missouri Barn. We’re continuing this series in 2010, and we’d like to invite local chefs and culinary experts to participate. This year demonstrations will be on Sunday afternoons at 1:30 p.m. Now that the Gardens are more established, we hope to offer visiting chefs a variety of herbs and vegetables to use in their recipes. We also hope to cross-promote our business with yours through Web site links, Facebook links and Twitter.

Demonstrations typically are held at 1:30 p.m. on Sundays at the Kansas City Power & Light All-Electric Cooktop in the Heartland Harvest Garden beginning now and running through the first weekend in October. We also need chefs to demonstrate recipes for our Sweet Corn Fest (Saturday, July 17) and our Tomato & Chile Pepper Fest (Saturday, Sept. 11).

A recipe (50 copies) which can be brought on the day of the demo (or sent to us in advance so we can copy it). Most chefs also provide a small sample for the audience to taste, but it is not required. We expect the audience to range from 25-50 people, but the crowd may grow as the program becomes better known. Chefs must provide their own food, but are welcome to contact us about fresh herbs and vegetables that may be available from our kitchen garden. We will provide tasting supplies (paper plates, toothpicks, napkins, etc.) and a volunteer to help with distributing food samples and clean-up. We also have a full set of cookware for the magnetic cooktop.

Powell Gardens is located on U.S. Highway 50, just east of Lone Jack and the intersection on Highway Z. Coming from Interstate 435 in Kansas City, take 470 to Lee’s Summit and then head south on Highway 50. Chefs should arrive approximately one hour early to set up.

Demonstrations should be about 20 minutes long, with time at the end for questions or chatting with the audience. Chefs may hand out menus or information about their restaurant.

Back in the 1970’s, Kansas City had a small group of German Chefs who helped shape what we have come to know as the Greater Kansas City Chefs Association. These Chefs transformed the culinary landscape of Kansas City and were the guiding forces behind the formation of the Chef’s Association.

It's that time of year again to nominate candidates for office:
(You must be a member in order to nominate a candidate for office)

ELECTION OF OFFICERS

At the April meeting a Nominating/Election Committee shall be appointed by the President and shall consist of four Active Members. Before the August meeting, the Nominating Committee shall select two candidates for each office, ascertain from each candidate his willingness to accept the office if elected, and shall present its slate of candidates to the membership at the August meeting. Membership on the Nominating Committee shall not bar a member from a candidacy for any office. After presentation of the slate of candidates, the Nominating Committee automatically becomes the Election Committee.

After presentation of the slate of candidates by the Nominating Committee, the President shall call for nomination from the floor, these nominations must be seconded. If the number of candidates for any office nominated by the Committee or the membership at large exceeds two members, there shall be a secret election held immediately and two members only will be selected as candidates for each office.

The manner in which the election is conducted shall be determined by the Election Committee with the stipulation that all elections be by electronic mail and be a secret ballot. Voting is limited to all Active Members and Retired Chef Members. Junior Members meeting attendance guidelines will receive one-half vote. All ballots cast after the published deadline will be disallowed. The results of the voting will be announced by the Election Committee at the November meeting.

New officers are to assume their positions effective the end of the November meeting.