Food & Media: On Assignment

In class on 4-20-10 two seperate groups of students were out getting footage and interviews for their class projects. The group I was with went to Harvest Valley Farms where we met Don Stoltenberg the owner. He allowed us to film a the tour he took us on of his farm. Harvest Valley is an impressive operation mainly because his livestock is antibiotic/hormone free. The processed meat from this farm does not have water added to it either. At Harvest Valley they have a small store where you can purchase everything they process. We received a discount and all bought pork loin, short ribs, peppered bacon, marinated chicken and cottage bacon which is cut from the shoulder and extremely lean. If you have a chance you should visit Harvest Valley Farms south of Bellevue.

Omelets are easy, right?

Brian and Eric are taping their portion of the Good Morning Metro Show.

Amy and Jonah shooting their segment, a breakfast bowl.

The judges panel. Tough crowd.

Some future important visitors. They loved seeing thenselves on camera.

We didn't get a picture of Andrew and Gary which was the best video of the day. The whole point of this week's video was to work with another person in front of the camera. It brings in a whole different kind of dimension. There has to be a certain chemistry between the two; a give and take that doesn't work with everyone. You have to remember to talk to the other person as well as look at the camera and be natural the whole time. Easy right?

Salmon Nicoise...

Our attempt at Salmon Nicoise. The goal was to create a video on how to prepare the dish from start to finish and illustrate plating techniques for the first year students. Certainly a stressful process, but one that was ultimately worthwhile. We'll work on posting a link to the video. Now get out there and eat something...

Chef Andrew the Viking

Today was a hoot, danger always approaches when freedom is unleashed. Today we took a simple scramble egg demo video to a new level. Mix Julia Child with the Swedish chef and watch out. In fact go onto youtube and check it out. Chef Tim let loose the Three Amigos (Gary, Dan, and Andrew) and got a Chernobal Experience!!!

Here is a link to my video from class today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fscIpBeGS8

Here are some additional photos of class...

2nd Day in Food & Media Class

Welcome to our Food and Media class at Metro Community College. This class is part of the Culinary Arts program.

Chef Tim (instructor) felt that a blog of what goes on in class was a good idea... so I am getting it started.

On our 2nd day of class we all go the chance, wether we wanted to or not, to make an instuctional video of a knife skill of choice. Of course this was on camera, and in the cool new demo kitchen. We all did farily well considering this was some of our first times doing this on camera. It was a bit scary in my opinion.

I am posting some of the pictures of the class. There will be more. Feel free to post questions/comments.

-Amy