Culinary Explorations Guest Chef Mat Wolf
Mat Wolf is among the new breed of New Orleans cooks. Born and schooled in the Northwest, Wolf arrived in the city in 1992 at the age of 19, armed with a brand-new associate’s degree in culinary arts from South Seattle Community College and the determination to broaden his culinary vision in a town filled with legendary restaurants. He first took a job as a line cook at Commander’s Palace under the late Chef Jamie Shannon and spent two years there, gaining a firsthand education in the techniques and ingredients used to create the deep, classic flavors so long identified with the New Orleans style. Then came three years at Gautreau’s, first as a line cook and eventually as sous-chef. Gautreau’s at the time was a young restaurant in the forefront of the local movement to bring a more contemporary finesse to the city’s restaurant menus. In 1998, Wolf returned to Seattle, first to join Chef James Drohman’s kitchen staff at Champagne, widely recognized as the city’s premier interpreter of French Provençale cuisine, and two years later to cook under Chef Christine Keff at Flying Fish, where, as Keff’s sous-chef, Wolf was able to indulge his passion for creating seafood dishes. In June 2002, he returned to New Orleans to become executive chef at Gautreau’s, ready to use the restaurant’s longstanding and distinctive menu style as the template for his own dishes, which balance richness with restraint and deliver full yet clean flavors.
Mongolian Cookout
Executive Chef Ed and his culinary team have prepared a unique and delicious Mongolian-style cookout on Lido Deck 11, poolside from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm. Chose your favorite items from a wide selection of meats, seafood, vegetables and starches Use any combination of sauces and spices to create your own flavor profile! One of our talented chefs will cook up your own creation before your eyes for your immediate enjoyment!
Explorer David Livingstone
David Livingstone, 1813 – 1873, was a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa and the first European to cross the African continent. From 1841 to 1852, while a medical missionary for the London Missionary Society in what is now Botswana, he crossed the Kalahari desert and reached Lake Ngami in 1849. He discovered the Zambezi River in 1851. Hoping to abolish the slave trade by opening Africa to Christian commerce and missionary stations, he traveled to Luanda on the west coast in 1853. Following the Zambezi River, he discovered and named Victoria Falls in 1855. Appointed British consul at Quelimane, he was given command of an expedition to explore the Zambezi region. In 1866 he returned to Africa to seek the source of the Nile. He discovered lakes Mweru and Bangweula and in 1871 reached the Lualaba tributary of the Congo River. Sickness compelled his return to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where the journalist H. M. Stanley found him in 1871. Unable to persuade Livingstone to leave, Stanley joined him on a journey from 1871 – 1872 to the north end of Lake Tanganyika. In 1873 he died in the village of Chief Chitambo. African followers carried his body to the coast where it was sent to England and buried in Westminster Abbey.
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