Berlin, Ocean Pines News Worcester County Bayside Gazette
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I raise my glass as I think of our broken industry, one to which hundreds of thousands of workers never returned after the pandemic. Short-staffed, short-tempered and exhausted, those of us remaining in the field simply try to eke out a week or two here and there to get… Read more »
Reprint from Oct. 26, 2018 (Oct. 20, 2022) Is there anything more comforting than mouthwatering meatloaf and fluffy mashed potatoes? If you agree, read on. Confessions come in many flavors. Willpower was once my best friend, but we have parted and gone our separate ways. It is for this reason I refuse to glimpse at… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I know I said I was done with teaching, but the university made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. And just like my last job, fall semester means that I get to teach our way through the foods of this great country of ours. We start in New England,… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 I do an awful lot of driving between the two restaurants, the Marlin Club and UMES in Princess Anne. I decided to get rid of my big redneck rig and downsize to a Toyota Tacoma and thank goodness that I did. It gets twice the mileage, which is a… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 When you think of empanadas, do you think of tasty hot pockets? That was always my assumption, as they were the only “empanadas” I had ever seen, some made with wheat flour and some with masa. Traveling through Mexico and Costa Rica over the years, they were somewhat ubiquitous,… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Sept. 19, 2019 Oh, what a day of skills last Friday was. “In my Introduction to Food Preparation” class, we covered a great many skills in one seemingly simple dish, and it was a stunning product after only having had one previous class. Most of these students… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Have you ever had that one food … that one “thing”… that absolutely blew your mind? Well, I can honestly say that I have live that blessed life where that happens at least once a year; I like to travel. Now, truth be told, that could be a misfiring… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 You know that I love smoking fish. I love eating smoked fish, and I especially love opening the smoker at that magical moment, knowing that the deed is done. There is something absolutely stunning about a properly smoked chunk of fish. When I was a wee lad of only… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Reprint from Sept. 7, 2017 St. Augustine of Hippo wrote quite some time ago – paraphrased – that people can’t help “but to watch a man crushed under a cart’s wheel, knowing the outcome, but not able to stare away nonetheless.” I remember having a senior honors class on… Read more »
By Paul Suplee, MBA, CEC, PC-3 Another summer is coming to an end, children returning to school and the dog days of summer and fever dreams caused by 100-degree-plus days fading into memory. With only a couple of the famed deck parties left in the season, it is time to get them all in before… Read more »