Chef Ted
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| Occupation | Retired chef owner of a catering business |
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| Location | Wherever, the erstwhile Pangaea |
| Introduction | Yes, that is me sweet people after graduating recently from Taxista school in Playa de Carmen, Mexico. In my old life I contrasted myself to an avant-garde painter forging ahead into the future; as Chef Ted was more an ancient Mediterranean artesian potter, throwing, timeless and unchanged ceramic pots and amphorae to perfection time after time. Ted Leake began cooking in 1976 while attending the University of Virginia. After graduation, he began a years long odyssey as a journeyman chef, working in restaurants all over the world including: The Sydney Opera House in Australia, Au Claire de la Lune in Paris and the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Odysseus returned to Charlottesville and established Chef Ted Catering in 1991. Chef Ted provided exquisite food, creatively arranged, at an affordable price. He retired in June of 2013 and went on an extended walk about. Maybe these ponderings and a wanderings will be of some value to someone. |
| Interests | As a tedious full disclaimer, most of what I write, in no particular order, is plagiarized one way or another. If you think that I am going to let the truth get in the way of a good yarn, or worry myself about where I stole it, (they say if you use one source, then it is plagiarism, five sources and it's well researched) you have been warned and would be ill-advised to read any further. These adventures and impressions are not easy to sort out because they are often interlaced, blending into one another until palpable reality is no longer distinguishable from what I have thought, dreamed, embellished, invented or imagined.Therefore treat all of this as fiction. Alas gentle reader, adventures they have been. |
| Favorite movies | don't watch 'em |
| Favorite music | Americana generally and specifically listener supported WTJU 91.1 FM Radio, located on the grounds of the University of Virginia; best radio station in the world. Check it out on the Web, especially the show "Jumping on the Bed" which Chef Ted Catering supported for years. |
| Favorite books | I read several books, magazines and AA pamphlets all at the same time, with varying degrees of success: how to manuals, classics like Crime and Punishment, anything by Bill Bryson, maps, total titillating trash, Spanish newspapers and the blogs of people desultorily wandering. Pretty much anything in this blog about Hawaii has been plagiarized from the travel book Hawaii: The Big Island Revealed by Andrew Doughty and Roadside Geology of Hawaii by Richard Hazlett. Buy them if you go there. |
If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
This one is too stupid for me to bother answering. Thanks for stopping by.