[Stoves] News (22 Sept 16): Obama awards National Humanities Medal to Chef Jose Anders

[Cookswell Jikos]

Well done to Jose Andres and well done to the GACC for the idea of a chef
corp, personally I have mostly found that the more cooks in the kitchen,
the better the flavor of the meal!
Including chef's (people who train and are paid to be experts in the arts
of cooking) in promoting a generally better all around kitchen experience
to other people is a win in my books.


In other news that you may find of interest regarding Govt. initiatives
with natural gas; some pro-biomass stoves (and heaters) legislation seems
to be coming out of Vancouver where they plan to ban gas! :P

''For restaurants, the problem is vastly apparent. Ninety-nine per cent of
all restaurants cook with natural gas due to the need for high heat.

“Gas is more faster [!] and the heat is stronger, more powerful,” said one
chef interviewed by Global News.

“The question I asked the city when we found about this, inadvertently, is
how are we going to handle this?” Ian Tostenson of the B.C. Restaurant
Association said. “And no one knows. So I’m angry because it creates
uncertainty for the small business person, which is not right.”
Phasing out natural gas means consumers must shift to renewable forms of
energy, like electricity, which costs upwards of three times more than gas,
or methane gas......''

Regular usages of natural gas:

   - Gas stove tops and ovens
   - Gas-fueled barbecues
   - Gas fireplaces.....''


http://globalnews.ca/news/2958288/city-of-vancouver-votes-to-ban-natural-gas-by-2050/


Teddy



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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Traveller <miata98 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anil Rajvanshi should celebrate!
>
> "José Andrés.  (Applause.)  The 2015 National Humanities Medal to José
> Andrés for cultivating our palates and shaping our culture.  He has
> introduced new and vibrant ingredients to our nation, whether through his
> innovative techniques in the kitchen, his work on clean cooking technology
> and access to education, or the inspiration he provides to new Americans.
>  (Applause.)
> "Remarks by the President at the Presentation of the 2015 National Medals
> of the Arts and Humanities
> <https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/22/remarks-president-presentation-2015-national-medals-arts-and-humanities> 22
> September 2016
>
> Salute, sirs.
>
> Eating out is a cook's dream. A chef has a matching dream - to feed the
> hungry.
>
> Chef Anders is a "Cooking Ambassador" for GACC.
>
> More on Jose Andres here
> <https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/jos%C3%A9-andr%C3%A9s>.
> I wish I could cook on naval ships like he did. (Even with solid fuels, so
> long as there are enough vents.)
>
> I have visited Zaytinya once. Expensive but impressive.
>
> Washington has many opportunities to wine-dine-and-shine while saving the
> poor and the planet. (I didn't get any of that, though I made similar
> claims and will readily make them, with some footnotes.)
>
> I remember peeking in a UN Foundation gala at the Willard Intercontinental
> party to honor Prof. Mohammed Yunus. The poor can make you so rich.
>
> **
>
> Chef Anders wrote a blog on White House website A Cooking Revolution: How
> Clean Energy and Cookstoves Are Saving Lives
> <https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/06/07/cooking-revolution-how-clean-energy-and-cookstoves-are-saving-lives>.
> June 7, 2016
>
> "Are saving lives?" Such claims are face-saving lies. This was serving a
> fine dessert full of air - "Chef José Andrés explains what President Obama,
> Prime Minister Modi, and advocates like himself are doing to save lives and
> combat climate change through cooking."
>
> My dear prime minister is spending billions of dollars to make LPG and
> electric cooking affordable to the masses. The US president is funding EPA
> and NIH about $37 million each (as and when authorized by the Congress).
>
> Chef Andres Jose Andres Is On A Clean Cookstoves Mission - He'll debut
> Sunny Day with solar cooking in Vegas
> <http://www.foodrepublic.com/2014/10/24/jose-andres-is-on-a-clean-cookstoves-mission/> (24
> October 2014).
>
> Real competition for biomass stoves.
>
> Nikhil
>
>
>
>
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