Every professional needs their tools and at Whitcomb Continuation High School's Career Day, a variety of guest speakers demonstrated the tools of their trade on Feb. 28.
For Owen's Bistro executive chef James Kelly, his chef's knife is his most important tool.
"I use this for almost everything," Kelly said. "I like this and a serrated knife."
The self-taught chef and owner of the Chino restaurant spoke to the students about his journey in the food industry, which began when he was a kid growing up around his grandparents' Italian restaurant in Chicago. The family moved to Covina when Kelly was in fifth grade and he cut his teeth as a busboy at the Velvet Turtle in Covina.
"I actually applied as a waiter but they only gave me a job as a busboy," Kelly said. "I thought, OK well I'll just go in there and show them I can work hard and they'll raise me up, and that's what I did."
At 21, the budding chef teamed up with his sister to open a sandwich shop in Chino. For 14 years the siblings worked 12-hour days making soups, salads and sandwiches by hand.
"I cut every slice of meat, I had a giant muscled shoulder from doing all the slicing," Kelly said. "As we got busier I started hiring some people but it was a struggle for a while."
Working hard was key to his success, he emphasized. Without his early efforts and sacrifices, Kelly said he never could have built Brown Bag It Cafe up to be the king of lunchtime in Chino, which led to him being invited to open a fine dining restaurant in downtown Chino.
The chef's message of hard work was reinforced as he told the students about the staff he hires and mentors. "I really enjoy training people that are dedicated, that are hardworking.
"One of my most important cooks in my kitchen right now, he didn't go to culinary school," Kelly continued. "What he did was he rode his bike and stopped by the restaurant every day and he would ask my wife, `So you need any help today?' and she'd say no, and he'd come back the next day.
"After a week of this she broke down and I met him. He was nice and respectful, so I said, `OK, I'll try you out for a couple of days, washing dishes and cutting potatoes.'
"He's been with us ever since."
In a nearby classroom, Glendora Police Department officer Marty Barrett impressed the teenagers with a description of the former obstacle course in the physical agility portion of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's SWAT team qualifier.
"It was designed by a doctor to completely oxygen-deprive your body," Barrett explained. "You ran 100 yards, climbed a 70-foot brick wall, climbed down a manhole into the ground, crawled through an 8-foot tube, came up through a manhole, crossed monkey bars, dragged a 200-pound dummy 15 feet, climbed through the upper window and back down a lower window on a wall, climbed a 10-foot chain link fence, ran a quarter mile, redid the whole obstacle course again, ran another quarter mile and, at the end, climbed on top of a 5-foot wall and balanced on the top of the wall across 50 feet.
2011年9月28日 星期三
Iconic show for Robe at Battersea Power Station
Robe ROBIN moving lights and CitySkape Xtremes from Robe's LED range were at the heart of a glamorous lighting scheme created by LD Nick Jevons of Electric Fly Productions for leading cosmetics brand Rimmel in London's iconic Battersea Power Station.
Staged on the eve of London Fashion Week, it celebrated 10 years of collaboration between supermodel Kate Moss and Rimmel, together with the launch of Rimmel's new 'London Lipstick Collection by Kate'.
Electric Fly was working for production company Iris Experience, for whom they regularly provide visual design and technical production services. All the lighting equipment was supplied by Blackburn based HSL.
Kate Moss arrived – in true rock 'n' roll style – by helicopter.
The lighting scheme encompassed both internal and external elements. Explains Jevons, "As one of London's greatest and most famous historical landmarks, it was a real honour to be asked to light Battersea Power Station. I immediately thought of using Robe's CitySkapes because I needed very powerful fixtures to produce a complete blanket coverage across the dark brown brick surface of the building, and also I wanted to use energy efficient sources …. so the Xtremes ticked all the boxes".
The north east side of the building – prominent to all guests as they arrived, shimmered in deep, luscious lipstick red for the evening, courtesy of twelve Robe CitySkape Xtremes. The Xtreme's colour range was "excellent for the job" comments Jevons, "They really produced the near textured 'coating of light' effect that I wanted".
Guest's limos and taxis pulled up at the front entrance to the event space (a self contained covered structure within the carcass of the Power Station closed in 1983 and now Grade II listed by English Heritage) and entered through a long corridor lit first in red and then in blue.
A foyer area featured a series of giant printed stand up graphic panels showing a retrospective of Kate Moss Rimmel images spanning the last decade, and from there guests passed into the main event space, complete with stage, bar, lounge and VIP areas.
The eye-catching set was designed by Iris, and took some key aesthetic starting points from Rimmel's current London Lipstick Collection ad campaign, resulting in a fragmented, deconstructed Union Jack with white and grey tone finishes. This was lit by Jevons in red, white and blue ….. "It was screaming for it," he explains.
Staged on the eve of London Fashion Week, it celebrated 10 years of collaboration between supermodel Kate Moss and Rimmel, together with the launch of Rimmel's new 'London Lipstick Collection by Kate'.
Electric Fly was working for production company Iris Experience, for whom they regularly provide visual design and technical production services. All the lighting equipment was supplied by Blackburn based HSL.
Kate Moss arrived – in true rock 'n' roll style – by helicopter.
The lighting scheme encompassed both internal and external elements. Explains Jevons, "As one of London's greatest and most famous historical landmarks, it was a real honour to be asked to light Battersea Power Station. I immediately thought of using Robe's CitySkapes because I needed very powerful fixtures to produce a complete blanket coverage across the dark brown brick surface of the building, and also I wanted to use energy efficient sources …. so the Xtremes ticked all the boxes".
The north east side of the building – prominent to all guests as they arrived, shimmered in deep, luscious lipstick red for the evening, courtesy of twelve Robe CitySkape Xtremes. The Xtreme's colour range was "excellent for the job" comments Jevons, "They really produced the near textured 'coating of light' effect that I wanted".
Guest's limos and taxis pulled up at the front entrance to the event space (a self contained covered structure within the carcass of the Power Station closed in 1983 and now Grade II listed by English Heritage) and entered through a long corridor lit first in red and then in blue.
A foyer area featured a series of giant printed stand up graphic panels showing a retrospective of Kate Moss Rimmel images spanning the last decade, and from there guests passed into the main event space, complete with stage, bar, lounge and VIP areas.
The eye-catching set was designed by Iris, and took some key aesthetic starting points from Rimmel's current London Lipstick Collection ad campaign, resulting in a fragmented, deconstructed Union Jack with white and grey tone finishes. This was lit by Jevons in red, white and blue ….. "It was screaming for it," he explains.
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