American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
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The American Personal & Private Chef Association. APPCA is the largest professional personal- and private-chef trade association in the United States. Any topic related food, cooking, nutrition, and the personal chef industry. Our Mission to promote the education and advancement of our membership in the personal- and private-chef industry, and the betterment of the industry as a whole.
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
3y ago
We’re now launching into week three of our month-long member discount on Zavor multicookers and induction cooktops. All APPCA members are eligible to get a 35 percent discount on Zavor Electric Multicookers and Induction cooktops PLUS free shipping. Members may purchase up to one induction cooktop and one multicooker of their choice with the discount ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
3y ago
As you might have read, we’re in the middle of a month-long member discount on Zavor multicookers and induction cooktops. All APPCA members are eligible to get a 35 percent discount on Zavor Electric Multicookers and Induction cooktops PLUS free shipping. Members may purchase up to one induction cooktop and one multicooker of their choice ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
3y ago
We’re very excited to announce a great deal only for our APPCA members! All APPCA members are eligible to get a 35 percent discount on Zavor Electric Multicookers and Induction cooktops PLUS free shipping. Members may purchase up to one induction cooktop and one multicooker of their choice with the discount. The discount will be ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
3y ago
Winter may be the common period of time when cultures around the world ring in the new year. But for Jews around the world the new year begins in the fall on the first day of Tishri in the Hebrew calendar, which, because it’s a lunar calendar, changes annually. This year it begins on the ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
3y ago
In a year in which time has come to mean almost nothing, here we are at Labor Day–that weird pause that declares summer to be over even if it’s really not yet fall. I have two tells, though, for this transition. The first is in late August when there’s always one day in which the ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
3y ago
Remember back to the end of February/beginning of March when our world began to shut down and we were scrambling for supplies to stock up for quarantine life? It wasn’t just hand sanitizer, bottled water, and toilet paper we couldn’t find. It was pasta and rice, chicken and beans. We were never going to run ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
4y ago
I know many of our chefs aren’t bakers, but in this time of homebody-ness, perhaps learning how to bake a pie could be your new sourdough bread. Summer is a brilliant time for pie baking, given the gorgeous fruit that’s in season. I’m an inveterate pie baker, thanks to my grandmother, who taught me how ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
4y ago
As a national organization APPCA has members serving clients across the country. We know that the coronavirus has hit different regions with different intensity over the past five months. That makes it challenging to determine on a national level what the appropriate approach is for serving clients–beyond CDC recommendations and ServSafe guidance. Each member is ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
4y ago
Well, it’s been, what, five months–six months–since what should probably call “before times.” Who can keep track anymore? In that time, many or most of us have found our lives and businesses have been turned upside down. Some of us have gotten sick. Some have lost family or friends. Our country has lost more ..read more
American Personal & Private Chef Institute & Association Blog
4y ago
So let’s just get this out of the way first. What exactly is curry? If it’s on a restaurant menu, it’s a complexly flavored sauce that creates heavenly dishes with vegetables, tofu, chicken, beef, or seafood. And, well, it’s got to include fragrant ingredients like lemongrass, and ginger or galangal, and, perhaps chiles, although those ..read more