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The Culinary team poses for a photograph atop the Roof Garden located on the 20th floor of our hotel. Since 2011, our roof top garden contains six beehives which help pollinate the various types of vegetables, fruits, herbs and plants that grow in…

This article discusses the history of (the then) modern cooking techniques and the development of the modern chef, who is both in part a scientist as well as an artist. Munsey's Magazine is credited with being the first mass-market magazine that was…

This file is the first installment to the "Notes from a Chef's Diary" series created by Arno Schmidt, Executive Chef of the Waldorf Astoria. This series includes a brief dialogue and exclusive Waldorf Astoria recipe for each month of the year. Happy…

This file is the third installment to the "Notes from a Chef's Diary" series created by Arno Schmidt, Executive Chef of the Waldorf Astoria throughout the 1970s. This series includes a brief dialogue and exclusive Waldorf Astoria recipe for each…

The rise of female chefs gained much popularity in the 1970s and Arno Schmidt helped to pave the way for female culinary artists here at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. In this photo are the first female chefs hired under Arno Schmidt's tenure as…

The Waldorf=Astoria’s appointment of Chef David Garcelon to Director of Culinary was featured in the “On The Move” section of the January/February 2012 issue of Hotel F&B (which had a circulation of 58,858 in February 2012).…

National Culinary Review spoke with Waldorf Chef David Garcelon about cooking in a hotel kitchen. Chef Garcelon addressed special challenges facing a luxury hotel (including volume and diversity of special requests), compared his kitchen to an…