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

Thu Sep 29 15:30:14 CDT 2016

Teddy:

Restaurant fuel fights aren't new. When I went to Antoine's - one of the
most famous restaurants in the US, New Orleans French Quarter (14 dining
rooms, on two or three floors) - the current owner told me the chefs fought
tooth and nail about switching from coal to gas, sometime in the 1940s.
"You can't cook French food on gas!!"

I am sure coal, charcoal, and wood all have their special appeals to chefs
depending on the type of cuisine and location.

I am glad to see electricity being called "renewable". If they mean hydro,
there's bad news - Oh great — scientists just confirmed a key new source of
greenhouse gases
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/09/28/scientists-just-found-yet-another-way-that-humans-are-creating-greenhouse-gases/>
Washington
Post 28 September 2016. It's not really news; I have read claims going back
25 years. This new paper - unpublished, but that doesn't stop science from
seeking publicity - supposedly synthesizes previous reports. I reserve
judgment on the quality of data, but yes, the environmental risks of
hydroelectricity can be high, GHG emissions aside.

Otherwise, if British Columbia is going to go all solar/wind, China and
India will sure finance the purchase.

Then North Americans will rediscover the value of what they still export -
oil, gas, and coal! :-)

Nikhil

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On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> *Cookswell Jikos*
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>
> Save trees - think twice before printing.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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