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Spring Menu starts at Café Presse

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Cafe Presse chef de cuisine James O’Hern unveiled his new menu for Spring 2018 today with the traditional staff tasting.  The staff tasting is sort of a cross between a dinner party and a training class on all the details of the new menu; food, friends and lots of talk about the dishes. Here are …

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Work starts for the Quarterly Dinner

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Preparations began today for the November Chef’s Dinner at Café Presse with the arrival of an entire half hog from Pure Country Pork in Ephrata.  The dinner, which is on Wednesday November 8, 2017, features a menu that makes use the whole spectrum of pig parts. This afternoon, artisan butcher Darron Marzolf will be showing …

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..and if life gives you grapes…

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Fall in the Béarn is different than any weather I have experienced before.  Sure there is rain, even violent rain,  but there are also interludes of intense golden sunlight and clear blue skies between the towering storm clouds.  And the temperature jumps between 85 and 60 degrees as the fronts pass quickly over in succession.  …

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Winter Supper raises over $6000 for charity

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On February 24, 2013, Le Pichet and Cafe Presse teamed up with the Corson Building, Bar Sejor, Sitka and Spruce, Bar Ferd’nand and Le Caviste to cook an over the top Winter Supper at the Corson Building.  The idea, which was hatched jointly by Matt Dillon and myself, was to cook an old style, elaborate …

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