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Blog by Julie Burke

Corporate Culinary Retreat in Banff

February 29th, 2012

Chefs BarbecuingA culinary retreat event we did in Banff, Alberta had our clients in a BBQ challenge. Their task were to produce a meal for the other team of 100 with a table of ingredients including lamb, ingredients for cornbread, chili and chocolate. This culinary teambuilding concept has been delivered in Calgary, Whistler, Phoenix and  Los Angeles. A big WOW factor for conference organizers. 

Calgary and Edmonton Culinary Team Building

February 28th, 2012

In Alberta, the culinary teambuilding business is rocking. Tall Order Culinary have clients in Calgary and Edmonton who are working on a joint venture project. How do the group dynamics play out?

The social process by which people interact and behave in a group environment is called group
dynamics.  Group dynamics involves the influence of personality, power, and behaviour on the
group proces ...

Can you see you through the pasta?

February 23rd, 2012

Frank Bruni wrote an article in the New York Times about Gabrille Hamilton's book 'Blood Bones and Butter'.  At the end of his article he wrote 'sometimes pasta and people don’t make good on all the hope you have invested in them. This quote rings true for those authentic culinary teambuilder entrepeneurs. It's a success if individuals pause for reflection in their style and role in communic ...

Corporate Retreat Idea - God's Pocket

February 23rd, 2012

Rock Salt + Fauna - 5* Culinary Experience

Julie Burke is lucky to have good friends that will entertain her retreat clients exclusuvely in the fall and early spring, before the dive season sets off. Gods Pocket is a waterfront location 45 minutes outside of Port Hardy, BC and world famous for Octupus diving. Arriving via Seaplane, is the best way to arrive at this astonishing wilderness loca ...

Toffee Sauce Recipe

February 22nd, 2012

Toffee Sauce

Ingredients:

1-1/3       Cups White Sugar
1/2          Cup Water
1             Cup liquid Whipped Cream

Preparation: (Do not leave the stove!)

Dissolve sugar and water in a heavy saucepan over medium heat until sugar is golden. Do not stir at all or your sugar water will break!

When the sugar is golden, remove the saucepan from the stovetop. CAREFULLY AND SLOWLY, add the whipping ...

Breaking Bread as a Team

February 16th, 2012

HOPE TO GO

 ‘Hope To Go’ is one of Tall Order’s community culinary teambuilding programs that measures group dynamics and personal willingness to give back to the community. How does the team organize one’s duties and responsibilities around a mountain of local fresh ingredients? Who shows leadership? The objective is to make scratch soup and bread to package, label and deliver to the local s ...

Too Many Cooks..aha Moment

February 15th, 2012
It is no surprise that when you enter Tall Order's kitchen doors the fun has just begun. Culinary Teambuilding in our view delivers more than one would expect in terms of divulging your style of communication. There's nothing wrong with styles but know that yours will be different than your peers. Like a rainbow it often blends together. When Tall Order Culinary turns on the heat we know that ...

Singles Cooking

February 14th, 2012
Happy Valentines Day! It's been known that Tall Order dishes up a singles cooking class that promises to deliver a minimum of eight men and eight woman to the kitchen counter. The menu is creating lucious aphrodisiac appetizers like chocolate dipped strawberries, avocado, and marinated figs. A fun and relaxing atmosphere to cook and talk and maybe connect.

Team Building Idea - Black Box Wine Challenge

February 7th, 2012

Black Box Wine Challenge

Team Building - Black Box Wine ChallengeDinner ought to be paired with a suitable wine but the trick is blending your group's perfect wine blend to claim the fame. Teams peek at the dinner menu and in only one hour concoct the winning blend under the watchful eye of a Sommelier. Whose team will be voted BEST BLEND? Typically this is a one hour event for groups of 50-500+

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