Pierpont Culinary Students Riding That Train

Pierpont students and chef instructor Jay Mahoney join the West Virginia ACF chapter for local fundraiser. Eight students from PC&TC cooked on the New River Train Excursion from Huntington, WV to Hinton, WV over the 24th and 25th of October. Over eleven hundred folks were taxied by 28 assorted railroad cars comprised from all over the country. Staffed by a variety of folks from abroad as well as locally. The 16 hour trip followed the CSX line traveling up the New River Gorge stopping in Hinton for a stroll through the street fair in celebration for the event. Culinary students from Marshall University, Mountain State University, Carver Career Center and Pierpont Community & Technical College joined together with ACF West Virginia chapter members to prepare the culinary delights for many of the travelers. PC&TC students involved were: David Carson, Ashley Gill, Rachael Harris, Joseph Woods, Kenny Poling, Jessica Dash, Lucinda Vance and Michael Cottingham.

Feast from the Fields

Chef Mahoney was recently featured as a guest chef in the "Feast from the Fields," dinner hosted by Gourmet on the Gorge.

Joy Marr, owner of Gourmet on the Gorge, has been living in West Virginia for the past 30 years as a professional outdoors woman, a caterer, innkeeper, and culinary tour guide. She has been working and cooking in the outdoors professionally for over 25 years. Her passion, enthusiasm, and love of the active lifestyle is evident in her fun and flavorful cooking, which explores the regional cuisines of Italy, Mexico and other far reaches as well as Appalachia and traditional Southern fare ~ E.W. Massey~

The menu started with a canapé created by guest Chef Jay Mahoney; just smoked WV trout served on a bit of toast with mustard aioli and sweet onion relish, alongside was the marinated goat milk Feta from farmers Darlene and Joe. These were served with a bright Riesling and a sturdy Goat du Rhone red (yes, we mean the pun!) down by the pond just before sunset.

Chef Mahoney's students at the Pierpont C&TC Culinary Program generously donated the pancetta, made from WV pigs, that we used in the sweet-n-sour dressing.

Read more about this really cool event...

http://www.gourmetonthegorge.com/feast10-11-08.htm

Bridges International 10th Anniversary Celebration

First year students: Joe Woods, David Pyles, Jessica Dash, Dave Carson, and Blayze Haught (not pictured) participated in a catered event celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Bridges International.

Bridges is a non-profit organization that supports and encourages missionaries around the globe. Bridges President, Thomas Aitken said, "This was one of our most successful events. The food was wonderful."