Ric Orlando
Press Info Chef/Owner: New World Home Cooking CafŽ,
New World Catering, Saugerties, NY
Host/Creator/Writer: Ric Orlando's TV Kitchen (PBS)
Author: We Want Clean Food, CF Press
"We Want Clean Food"
Guided by these words, Ric Orlando brings an inspired blend of lust for life, irreverent humor, and nationally renowned cooking prowess to his roles as chef, lecturer, author and Public Television Cooking show host. His recipes and commentary are consistently in national demand.
Ric bridges the gap between the restaurant and health food worlds by defining his culinary style at Global Heritage Cooking. He understands of what makes traditional foods both nourishing and satisfying and translates it all brilliantly into exciting, contemporary cuisine. He brings culinary flair to such concepts as sustainable seafood, free-range grazing, isoflavones, and antioxidants, while making the learning experience fun and accessible.
A man with a colorful past, Ric's cultural roots stem from the late 1970's through 1980's in New York, New Haven and Boston. Orlando has been a punk rocker, a fashion model, a poet, a music video producer, and now an accomplished chef. He is the executive chef and creative force behind the Hudson Valley landmark restaurant the New World Home Cooking Co. Orlando gathered his experience at groundbreaking restaurants such as the legendary Elm City Diner in New Haven, (the original) Harvest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Wild Goose in Boston, Sugar Reef in Manhattan and Yates Street and Justin's in Albany. He has cooked in the kitchens of some of the most widely respected chefs in America including Bob Kinkead, Jake Jabobus and Emmett Fox.
Businesses:
oChef-Proprietor: New World Home Cooking Company CafŽ, 1993-present
oChef-Proprietor: New World Catering Corp., 1997-Present
oConsultant-Proprietor: RicO Culinary Concepts, 1989-present
oOwner: Clean Food Press
Memberships:
oInternational Association of Culinary Professionals
oChef's Collaborative.
oCharter Member and Advisor to Hudson Valley chapter of Slow Food USA
oFounding member of the Empire State Chapter of the American Culinary Federation
Press and Awards: Chef Ric and New World Home Cooking Co. have been featured the following national publications: Chef, Food Arts, N.Y. Times, Restaurants and Institutions, Nation's Restaurant News, Chile Pepper, Restaurant Business, International Times Herald Tribune, Appellation.
oNew World Home Cooking is a recipient of a 2006 Sante Restaurant Award for Innovative Cuisine - Mid Atlantic Region
o Hudson Valley Magazine Best Vegetarian 2005, Best Hot and Spicy 1996
o Metroland Best of 1998-2006
o Zagat Award of Distinction 2001
o Culinary Institute of American Best of the Hudson Bon Vivant Award ÒCuisine West of the HudsonÓ 2004
o American Culinary Federation 1993 Culinarian of the Year, Empire State Chefs Association
Media and Publications:
oPBS series Ric Orlando's TV Kitchen, WMHT. PBS/Schenectady, NY 2003
oCookbook: We Want Clean Food, Clean Food Press 2003
oWeekly Radio Commentator on Food Issues, Good Morning Monterey Bay, KSCO-Santa Cruz, California
oNBC's Today Show 12 times since 1995
o Op Ed columist, Poughkeepsie Journal
o Blog ÒSlow CookinÓ Chronogram Magazine
oThe Food Network's Cooking Live Prime Time with Sarah Moulton 2000
oOxygen Network 2003
oDiscovery Network's Home Matters, 3 episodes 1999/2000
oLifetime's ÒLiving Better with Ellie KriegerÓ 2001
oCo-Host of the WMHT (PBS-Schenectady) "Capital Region Cooks" Fund Drives for 5 years
oWAMC-Northeast Public Radio's Health Show and VOX POP numerous times 1996-2006
oRegional Local News Source since 1993-2007
Education, Lectures & Classes:
oAdvisor for the Culinary Department of Ulster Boces.
o Lecturer for Marist College Philosophy Department on the Ethics of Food,2007
o Lecturer Ulster Couty Mental Health Associates, Clean Food Lifestyle,2007
o Guest Chef, Educator for the James Westervelt Memorial Series/ Capital oDistrict ACF Chapter
o Guest Chef, Lecturer/ Schenectady Community College
o Guest Lecturer/ Commencement Day, SUNY Delhi Class of 2005
o Guest Chef, Educator/SUNY Cobleskill Vegetarian Cookery 2004-06
o Guest Chef, Lecturer/ the Culinary Institute of America Winter Dining Series, Gourmet Society and Chef's Collabortive
o Guest Chef, Presenter/ Desmond American Wine Festival, Albany, NY 1998, 1999, 2000
o Chef, Consultant, Presenter / The Kingston Hospital Women's Health Expo 2003- 2007
oGuest Chef, Lecturer / Vassar College's Lifetime Studies Group 2003
oChef/Instructor, the Knowledge Network. Albany, NY 1993-2007
oChef Instructor, The Cooking School of Aspen 2000, 2001
Websites: http://newworldhomecooking.com
http://newworldcatering.com
http://ricorlando.com
For more info contact : Josh Taylor
