By Robert Doherty
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE
Erickson Retirement Communities is now selling it's own cookbook. so where do the recipes come from??? It's own chefs!
Proceeds from the new book, From the Chef’s Kitchen, are going to an organization called ExperienceCorps® (www.ExperienceCorps.com). And Jim Rondinelli, the executive chef at Linden Ponds, is one of the chefs featured in the book.
A good cause
Experience Corps works to solve serious social problems, beginning with literacy and is now in 19 cities. Its motto is "new adventures in service for Americans over age 55," and boasts more than 2,000 Corps members serving as tutors and mentors to children in urban public schools and after-school programs where they help teach children to read and develop the confidence and skills to succeed in school and in life.
Research shows that Experience Corps benefits participants in a variety of ways including activity levels, academic performance, and strengthening ties between these institutions and surrounding neighborhoods.
The book features 23 chefs and 58 recipes, which are divided into four categories:
• From the Menu: Favorites found on the menus at campus restaurants that would be great for Sunday dinner, including chicken pot pie, honey and ginger glazed carrots, and pear bread pudding with vanilla sauce.
• Pub & Bistro: The kinds of dishes that make your neighborhood pub or deli a local landmark, such as French onion soup, Maryland crab cakes, and Girl scout peanut butter cream pie.