Chefs Cook Up Yummy Food
October 27, 2006
Sansei Live! brings together entertainment, food, and community in one place where all the different generations can come together and party. It benefits Kimochi, Inc., serving Japanese and APA seniors. Every week, until the date of the event, AsianWeek has been looking at different aspects of the fun to be had at Sansei Live!
Food lovers, get ready to stuff your faces because at Sansei Live! you will be able to sample delicious dishes prepared by local chefs, who will be participating in culinary demonstrations throughout the evening.
All the chefs will be distributing recipes of their dishes along with tasty samples.
Back for the third year, Native American chef Clyde Serda will be preparing last year’s hit dish, Asian Shrimp Patties with a Thai Green Curry Sauce. Serda came up with that new dish specifically for the event and would go on to include the recipe in his first cookbook, Just the Cook: The Trials, Tribulations and Recipes of a Catering Chef.
“Everyone loved it, which is why I decided to cook it again,” said Serda. “Surprisingly no one in the audience had ever seen anything like it. Cooking is really an international language, as long as you can see it, you can replicate it.”
Serda got involved in Sansei Live! two years ago when Sugar Bowl Bakery executive pastry chef Kevin Ly asked him to participate in the event.
A graduate and former instructor of the California Culinary Academy, Serda has also served as president and chairman of the Board of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast and as restaurant chairman for the American Heart Association of San Francisco. He also has been featured on live television cooking shows including the popular Bay Café with Joey Altman and as a chef instructor on the PBS series In the World Kitchen.
Along with Chef Clyde Serda, Sansei Live! culinary demonstrations will be performed by Chef Bruce Paton of the Cathedral Hill Hotel, Chef Terry Lynch of Sparrow restaurant and Chef Robert McConnell of the Palace Hotel.
“This year we have extremely talented chefs,” said Chef Ming Adler, who will serve as the mistress of ceremonies for the demonstrations. “The demos are definitely fun and one of the highlights of Sansei Live!”
DETAILS: Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m. to 12 a.m., Presidio Officers’ Club, 50 Moraga St., San Francisco, (415) 931-2294, www.kimochi-inc.org . Proceeds benefit Kimochi Senior Center.
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