This edition: Cuisine
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Episode Details
Original tape date: April 4, 2013. First aired: April 28, 2013.This month, the news magazine show about CUNY looks at cuisine throughout and beyond CUNY. Tinabeth Pina anchors the show at the City Tech hospitality management program, where our guides, Susan Lifreiri-Lowry and Joanne Jacus, walk us through some cooking demos. Kristen Battaglia, a City Tech student, enters the first ever U.S. Student Pastry Competition, and how do you think she did? After this, we’ll follow chef and restauranteur Michael Lomonaco at his world-renowned restaurant Porter House New York in the Time Warner Center. We will watch up and coming chef Kubee Kassaye, who migrated here from Ethiopia and has made quite a name for herself in New York restaurants. The Spoons Across America program will teach young children about bees and honey. And finally, we profile one of the few sake samurais in the world, Roger Dagorn. Don’t know what that is? Watch to find out!
Guest List
Kristen Battaglia Student, Winner, 2013 U.S. Pastry Competition, City Tech
Roger Dagorn Adjunct Professor, Wine Education, Sake samurai and sommelier,, City Tech, Tocqueville Restaurant
Lynda A. Dias Assistant Professor , City Tech
Stephen Evetts President of Jurors, City Tech 2013 Pastry Competition
Prof. Joanne Jacus Department of Hospitality Management, NYC College of Technology/CUNY
Kubee Kassaye Alumna, Chef, City Tech, The Peninsula
Susan Lifrieri-Lowry Lecturer, Hospitality Management, City Tech
Michael Lomonaco Executive Chef, Co-Managing Partner, City Tech, Porter House New York
Ali Weisman McDowell Director of Communications, City Tech, Spoons Across America
Suzen O'Rourke Dame Suzen O'Rourke, Les Dames d'Escoffier New York
Cornel Ruhland Executive Chef , The Peninsula New York
Anthony Smith Adjunct Professor , City Tech
Almaz Worgessa Adoptive Mother of Kubee Kassaye
